Example sentences of "been [adv] [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 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 3 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 7 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It seems to me that anyone attracted to practising psychology or psychotherapy or psychiatry has not been so without some needs of their own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 18 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 23 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 24 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 25 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 26 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 27 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 28 | ‘ D' you mind tellin' me what you 've been up to all day ? ’ demanded Dolly . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ What 's 'e been up to this time ? ’ asked the put-upon wife . |