Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 2 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 3 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 4 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 5 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 6 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
| 7 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 10 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 11 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 12 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 13 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 14 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
| 15 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
| 16 | It had been like this last night . |
| 17 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 18 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 19 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 20 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 21 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 22 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 23 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |