Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I hear the English faculty has been on to Humphrey already , ’ he volunteered . |
| 2 | I do not believe it is disputed that this factor has been powerfully in operation recently . |
| 3 | Having worked for a number of years now in community health services , previously erm in Yorkshire , in fact I 've only been down in Oxford about four or five months , I 've learnt how important it is in fact to make good working contacts with members and officers of other organizations , and particularly of local authority organizations . |
| 4 | Napoleon is believed to have been warmly in favour even though the tunnel was not designed for military purposes . |
| 5 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 6 | Emily had only been away from home twice , and each time she had been very unhappy . |
| 7 | I had never been away from home before . |
| 8 | For a girl who before her recent adventure had never been away from home alone for more than a weekend , the prospect which this room and Madame Chardin 's rules evoked was a daunting one . |
| 9 | I had never been away from Joe before , and I had no idea what was going to happen to me at Miss Havisham 's . |
| 10 | ‘ She has n't been up to London yet . |
| 11 | Been up to London recently ? ’ |
| 12 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 13 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
| 14 | Jean-Claude had been back to Reine twice during the year , to visit his mother . |
| 15 | He has been back to Wirral once since then , in 1988 . |
| 16 | They had not been back in London long before he and Ricky left for the West Indies . |
| 17 | I have been back in London long enough to know my place . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't dislike it , but I 've only been out with Charles about three times … ’ |
| 19 | Why had he been out on Vangmoor so early ? |
| 20 | Since then , they have been out of order frequently — seven days in August alone . |
| 21 | be prepared with positive and well-reasoned responses for negative questions about your age , why you were made redundant , why you have been out of work so long , whether you have lost skills through lack of use , whether you have failed to keep in touch with your original skills |
| 22 | He had newer been out of Scotland before but he did not feel at all homesick . |
| 23 | He said you 'd been out of sorts recently . ’ |
| 24 | Since 1969 , Ron and Reggie Kray have only been out of prison once . |
| 25 | I tend to favour the idea that people who have not been out of business too long could probably play a valuable role , although I accept that , if someone has been out of active business life for two or three years , his contacts and awareness of up-to-date affairs may have changed . |
| 26 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 27 | Nostradamus published his Centuries in 1555 and they have never been out of print since . |
| 28 | Anyway coach Olsen actually before this game mentioned that some players was knocking on the door for a place — Fjortoft and Sorloth has kind of been out of form recently . |
| 29 | She had only just been out of hospital then . |
| 30 | The boy had never been out in society before . |