Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 2 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 3 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 4 | If this is to happen then there must be far greater participation than there has been hitherto by all members of the school staff in the establishment of general philosophy and purpose of the school . |
| 5 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 6 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 7 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 8 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 9 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 10 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 11 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 12 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 13 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 14 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 15 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 16 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 17 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 18 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 19 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 20 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 21 | We have been here under many governments since 1971 and will continue to be here under many more , ’ the Salomon spokesman said . |
| 22 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 23 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 24 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 26 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 27 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 28 | Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then . |
| 29 | Cassie shivered as she contemplated the knowledge that she had been here in this kitchen once before … or as near as made no difference . |
| 30 | All I have ever known of love has been here in this house . |