Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years . |
| 2 | If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this . |
| 3 | Appendix B. Right , Chris has already been through this part of it . |
| 4 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 5 | I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest . |
| 8 | And the unions had also been through this scene recently . |
| 9 | I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together . |
| 10 | Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together . |
| 11 | I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’ |
| 12 | In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ? |
| 13 | I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before . |
| 14 | Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's the only place he 's ever been outside this country . |
| 16 | Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ? |
| 17 | ‘ Oh all right , I have n't been inside this house since I used to come here to dances when your father was a boy . |
| 18 | We have n't been round this way for a while have we ? |
| 19 | He added : ‘ Obviously it 's a great thrill to be top of the table with Rangers because I have n't been in this position before . |
| 20 | ‘ I have n't been in this church for years . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You have n't been in this neck of the woods for years , and I doubt if in all her life she 's been further than Blackpool . ’ |
| 22 | I have never been to this town before , but I do not think she is a typical resident of Bournemouth . |