Example sentences of "been [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And me bloody petrol gauge has been on half way along Scunnie Road . |
| 2 | Course I have n't been down that way for a while . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir Robert , ’ Agrippa smoothly intervened , ‘ we have been down this path before . |
| 5 | That he had been down some time , and that there were a Nest of them at Alfoxden House who were protected by a Mr Poole a Tanner of this Town . ’ |
| 6 | He 's been down three times in his career , but always got up to win . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's a guy here who 's only been down three days . |
| 8 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |
| 9 | He had been up seventeen hours . |
| 10 | Lucy Wedderburn , the young medical registrar , has been up all night inserting drains and carefully drawing out bloodstained fluid , and she 's still on duty , witty and vivacious through the exhaustion . |
| 11 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 12 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 13 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 14 | It could only be about eight o'clock — her old-fashioned watch , unwound this morning , had stopped — but she felt as if she had been up all night , working to meet an insane deadline . |
| 15 | He 'd been up all night . |
| 16 | ‘ Have you been up all night ? ’ |
| 17 | It looked as if both men had been up all night . |
| 18 | He arrived at the interview in shades , because he 'd been up all night speeding , and a leather jacket . |
| 19 | Carrie said , ‘ You been up all night ? ’ |
| 20 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 21 | He looked terrible , his face blotched and patchy , his eyes red , as though he had been up all night . |
| 22 | and we 'd been up all night serving troops and er , you see , and then the Manager said , well look er now and have some breakfast before we get th another telegram and we were next door to the Telegram Office , you see , and when , when the erm war , during the war , you see , the man would come out of the Telegraph Office and he would say er and er , you see , all the lights went out except a few lights along the back of the counter . |
| 23 | ‘ If you had n't come I would have been up all night . ’ |
| 24 | Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes . |
| 25 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've already been up all night . |
| 27 | ‘ Police and many volunteers had been up all night looking for them . |
| 28 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 29 | I 've been up all night . |
| 30 | He had arrived at the Laboratory over an hour late , at ten o'clock , looking terribly tired because he had been up that night at the scene of crime , and had come over to the reception desk to collect his personal post . |