Example sentences of "been [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You were also , probably , drunk , but how you got drunk , or where you had been between that first moment of reacquaintance with yourself and now , was a mystery .
2 A former senior minister who has been through many spending rounds says we take them all much too seriously , they are merely a mating ritual , he says , adding , and a barren one at that , no offspring .
3 ‘ Fuck off , we 've been through all that .
4 We 've been through all that . ’
5 ‘ We 've been through all that , ’ said Constance .
6 ‘ Time and again we 've been through all that .
7 ‘ I 've been through all that .
8 ‘ We 've just been through all that !
9 Who will lose his legs — ‘ And sleep without his girl — ‘ ‘ My family have been through all this already .
10 Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’
11 He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right .
12 Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One .
13 He had evidently been through all this before .
14 ‘ I 've been through all this once , Cassie — with Bella .
15 Establishment people say , ‘ We 've been through all this before .
16 They had been through all this before , or at least their genes had .
17 They had been through all this before .
18 We 've been through all this before , so often .
19 ‘ I 've been through all this with the police … ’
20 I say that I thought we had already been through all this .
21 Come on , we 've been through all this
22 ‘ We 've been through all this already — I 've never taken drugs in my life ! ’
23 I have been through all these emotions myself .
24 Belinda did n't know exactly where they were going , and in her five hard-working years in Brisbane had never been through these opulent suburbs before , but in a way it was nicer to surrender herself to a mystery drive .
25 The general rule here is that dukes are a better topic than baronets , especially dukes who have been through several expensive duchesses ( you can never have enough ex- duchesses ) .
26 It may have been through this same intuitive process that he first decided to move towards the field of Art Education .
27 You see , we 've been through this public witch hunt before .
28 She did not feel very close to her mother , although they had been through some rough times together :
29 BY THE sound of ‘ Tantrum ’ and ‘ Intact ’ , these people have been through some murderous , futile relationships .
30 Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so .
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