Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |
| 32 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 33 | I 've been in this position loads of times , like . |
| 34 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 35 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 36 | Kerly added : ‘ I 've been in this game for 16 years . |
| 37 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 38 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 39 | I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference . |
| 40 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 41 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 42 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 43 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 44 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 45 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 46 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 47 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 48 | ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before . |
| 49 | I have been in this city a week today . |
| 50 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 51 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 52 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 53 | She has been in this hospital room since February waiting for her heart-lung swap . |
| 54 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 55 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 56 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |
| 59 | So after you 've finished training , you 're going down to the library , yes , to look up the names of the people luve in Street , and once you 've been on that appointment you 've got to go back to the branch and you 're gon na do your mail shots whatever you 're gon na do , put it in there . |
| 60 | Saying you 've been to those destinations in the U K does n't actually hold the same appeal or esteem . |