Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've all been in trouble with the police and all that malarkey , but that 's all part of growing up . |
| 2 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 3 | In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic . |
| 4 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 5 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've already been in touch with the Secretary-General . |
| 7 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 8 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've always been around dope . |
| 10 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 11 | I 've always been in trouble … |
| 12 | Rebel shareholders want to wrest control from a handful of family dynasties who 've traditionally been in charge . |
| 13 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 14 | I 've never been into party political material as such and he just does n't make me laugh . ’ |
| 15 | We 've never been to station , d' ya know we 've never been on the slope and I 've , I 've |
| 16 | I 've never been on tour , but I 've been to the visitor 's centre , and |
| 17 | I 've never been as sea sick in all my life ! |
| 18 | He 's also said : ‘ I 've never been in love with directors . |
| 19 | can , can I just move on to one other issue that I 'd like to look at er , because I think we 've covered that reasonably for the moment which is , how , how will you find love ? , ninety three people said their , their were in love , seven said they were n't , of those seven were , you 've never been in love , was it , have , have you wanted to be ? , would any of the seven who voted no at the beginning , yes |
| 20 | No , I 've never been in love , I do n't know anything about it really . |
| 21 | I ca n't tell her I 've never been in love . |
| 22 | " You 've never been in love . |
| 23 | I 've never been in love before . |
| 24 | I 've never been in love ! ’ |
| 25 | I 've never been in love . |
| 26 | I 've never been in ward two . |
| 27 | I 've never been in jail and I never wan na find out what it 's like in jail but if you actually ever go to the police station , Harlow police station , they sometimes let people up there and do tours , no one likes being left in the cell cos when the door closes it 's very very small and it 's very claustrophobic , and it 's not very nice . |
| 28 | I 've never been in trouble with police . |
| 29 | Talk to one or two people who 've recently been to business school . |
| 30 | Children should always wash their hands before handling food , particularly if they 've recently been in contact with pets . |