Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [prep] [det] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 2 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 3 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 4 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 5 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |
| 6 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |
| 7 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |