Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er has the card been filled in with a date on it ? |
| 2 | Austin Brown , the ace photographer who took these beautiful pictures , had already been flown off in a Cessna 172 . |
| 3 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 4 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 5 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 6 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 7 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 8 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 9 | A sheet of cloth has been placed on to a stripped bed , the winding-sheet has been folded over the left-hand side of the corpse , the remainder drawn over the right , whilst the arms have been folded across the body in line with the bottom of the rib-cage . |
| 10 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 11 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 12 | After all , the 26 tracks on the album have been whittled down from a huge figure . |
| 13 | Since the monks were thrown out of Prague in 1954 , the cloisters of the monastery have been given over to a display of Czech illuminated manuscripts , printing techniques and modern literature . |
| 14 | Thirteen of the twenty rooms have been given over to a new permanent exhibition ‘ Europe and America : nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings and watercolours from the Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection ’ . |
| 15 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
| 16 | Billy Dann 's office was long and narrow , almost as narrow as the desk placed across it just in front of the window , but very high because it had been partitioned out of a much bigger room . |
| 17 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 18 | The embryo has been broken up into a number of regions whose development is largely independent of one another . |
| 19 | The procession had been broken up by a large number of black youths from Lewisham , Deptford and Brixton , waving Ethiopian flags . |
| 20 | What Derrida points out is that this view can creep back into the definition of the sign itself once it has been broken down into a signifier and a signified . |
| 21 | The picture is described as having been formed out of a series of anxious revisions which incorporate all that has preceded them so that there are glimpses of ‘ buried entities ’ to enliven gaps and edges . |
| 22 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 23 | Debates followed in parliament with the Unionists in full cry , for the Liberals seemed to have been caught out in a case of open corruption . |
| 24 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 25 | The luck of the draw you may say , but if the match had been pegged out by a considerate , knowledgeable angler the problem would not have arisen . |
| 26 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 27 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 28 | They have been included out of a sense of completeness . |
| 29 | Not for the first time this year , Seles had been let off with a mere slap on the wrist . |
| 30 | Some drivers whose tyre tread is below the new legal limit have been let off with a caution … others face prosecution . |