Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | My department 's equivalent of Inspector Morse has been on to the change-of-address problem . |
| 2 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 3 | Information has been around since the garden of Eden . |
| 4 | Wilson , who made a quiet yet effective impact in the 2–0 midweek World Cup defeat of Latvia has been around in the game with spells at Derby County , Ipswich , Chelsea and his present club where he is happy but would consider a move to a higher grade of football if possible . |
| 5 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 6 | Service intervals of 3000 miles , plus an initial 500-mile check , mean the car has been back to the Dartford factory five times since April and have produced bills for a total of £826.05 , although £96.50 of that was to replace one of the 205/45 ZR16 Goodyear Eagle GS-D tyres , which had collected a nail in its tread . |
| 7 | Iain saying he has been back to the body , and looked into Christopher 's eyes . |
| 8 | Forty-five years later Erika Barnes has been back to the village , now a thriving community . |
| 9 | The man who ran the world 's first sub-four minute mile has been back to the track where he made history nearly thirty five years ago . |
| 10 | Last year a team from Hereford were the winners and the Castaways raft has been back on the Wye this week practising to make it a double . |
| 11 | A legend in the power boat world , Shurdington signwriter , John has been in at the top of his sport for over 30 years . |
| 12 | I 'm trying to find out what sort of emotional state your daughter has been in over the past six months . |
| 13 | Conference , we are all well aware of the terrific financial burden that this union has been under over the last few years . |
| 14 | If you want to eat a salmon at its best , try to find one that has been netted at the river mouth or offshore early in the spring , that has been out of the water for no more than twelve hours and still has sea lice on it . |
| 15 | Striker Robbie Turner , 26 , and on a weekly contract , has been out of the side with a broken leg since February . |
| 16 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 17 | I have n't seen my , never saw my grandfather and so family has been out of the country for a few generations now . |
| 18 | rachel says she learnt to ski with Chantelle at Gloucester five years ago … she has been out to the snow a few times this season and to be good you have to be able to get out there but this slope is good … and almost like the real thing |
| 19 | A police squad has been out on the streets rounding up school truants . |
| 20 | All being well , the skies will part once or twice during the festival — only the second time the event has been out in the open air . |
| 21 | Their song is of regret and exile , its core the oxymoron of ‘ this far land ’ — ‘ this ’ land is the real land , Middle-earth , ‘ far land ’ ought to be the one Elbereth is in beyond the Seas . |
| 22 | SunSoft claims many SCO Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature amongst the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up on the operating system . |
| 23 | SunSoft claims many Santa Cruz Unix and Open Desktop applications now feature among the 5,000-odd software packages it says are up under the operating system . |
| 24 | One can only regard them as victims of other people 's loose ends , just as the terrible sustained anxiety of Raskolnikov 's mother and sister on his account is the measure of his power to make others suffer as well as himself in that limbo which his friend — his only friend — Razumikhin calls being out of the practical swim . |
| 25 | She 's been on about the Brownies ever since she was seven , the age at which Granny says girls can join . ’ |
| 26 | Alright , so it 's been around since the year dot . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been up at the School ! |
| 28 | I saw him — never mind how , I 'll tell you later , but the point is , he 's been up to the house and taken things . |
| 29 | Jeanie moaning , Lily weeing , she 's got a water infection so she 's been about to the loo about five thousand times |
| 30 | Brian Ashmore says he suffered his first heart attack thirteen years ago and he 's been back into the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon five times since with related problems . |