Example sentences of "been [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fuzz would have been on to that straight away . |
| 2 | I 've been on to this morning , asked me to and they have got thirty palettes there at the moment . |
| 3 | ‘ I have been most of all impressed by the contention that removal to such an area would be damaging to the morale of journalists . ’ |
| 4 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 5 | ‘ Gay , you 've always been rather like that , have n't you ? ’ |
| 6 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 7 | Four of the committee members are from developing countries , and the experience of several of the others has been mostly in these countries . |
| 8 | The Labour government 's priority from 1964 onwards was the servicing of the economy in response to demands made on them by capital ; in so far as working-class girls could have contributed to this , it would have been only in those unskilled jobs for which greater or better education was not required . |
| 9 | If it had been down to that one offence , Daine would be in court for ever , kept on life support until the end of the trial , or until the judge ruled that enough medical alterations had been made to render the accused legally another entity entirely . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 13 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 14 | What about livestock would they have been in at that time of year ? |
| 15 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 17 | He will fight Jose Ribalta , a 28-year-old Cuban American , who has been in with some of the best heavyweights . |
| 18 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 19 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 20 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The floor of these forests was , at best , only sparsely vegetated and great areas may have been entirely without any living leaves . |
| 24 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 28 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 29 | The composition by age of children in children 's homes had always included some adolescents but they had never been together in such large numbers before . |
| 30 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |