Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 2 | On these traffic lights been down to that football match actually cos it 's absolutely nose to tail right the way there right the way down here |
| 3 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 4 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 5 | By now they were in Piccadilly Circus , anonymous among the largest crowd Sally-Anne had ever been in without some sort of companion to protect her , or to look out for her . |
| 6 | Ruth stared down at it and wondered why she had bought it and thought it was probably because it contrasted so sharply with what she had been through on this trip . |
| 7 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 8 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 9 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 10 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 11 | In the evenings , after Granpa had come home for supper and the old man had gone off to the pub , I soon became bored just sitting around listening to what my sisters had been up to all day ; so I joined the Whitechapel Boys ' Club . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |
| 13 | Is er has what 's his name , the angry man been up to any antics lately ? |
| 14 | But the little tousle-headed , dirty , tanned , bold toddler that was me might well have been up to some sort of mischief involving the beast . |
| 15 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 16 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 17 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 18 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 19 | Carrie suddenly said , ‘ Your mum and I were worried about you , Seb , but all my dad could keep saying was , ‘ It 's a good job I managed to reach you when I did , or you 'd have been up at that farmhouse for another week . ’ ’ |
| 20 | Had n't been out since this morning . |
| 21 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 22 | We 've been out on this balcony a long time , and no one has come to interrupt us . |
| 23 | By now you should have been out on several practice walks and determined your state of fitness . |
| 24 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 25 | He 's been out for some time . |
| 26 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 27 | mind you , I 've , we 've just finished eating our tea , we 've been out to all hours doing the lawn , you know cutting the lawns all round the house |
| 28 | But now that she came to think of it she had never been out to any sort of meal with John . |
| 29 | On the previous days they had been out to some meals , but she had also cooked for them . |
| 30 | At the end of the protracted negotiations with her great-aunt 's executors , and the vendor 's solicitors , Hugh and Molly had been out to several dinners in bistros , for which she insisted she paid her share . |