Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [be] [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Joanne works at a grammar school and almost all her teaching experience has been at this school . |
| 2 | No it 's down there , and in it er I wrote it last night actually when I was feeling pretty fucked off so it 's probably a bit out of order but I wrote to him and said erm tt Josh has been round this evening asking questions about what 's happened with his money erm and I think you 're really out of order . |
| 3 | Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb . |
| 4 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 5 | Gloucestershire County Council has been down this road before . |
| 6 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 7 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |
| 8 | It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession . |
| 9 | My beloved 's been in this cupboard and messed it all up . |
| 10 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 11 | Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein . |
| 12 | Buckley has been in this job since 1988 and in the department since 1981 , but she started as a lawyer in private practice , a profession where equality is far more of a reality than in industry . |
| 13 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 14 | In fact Samuel omits is from this point on , and in this respect his repetitions of the phrase become more Creole ; however , the consonant of the now starts to appear as [ ] ( l. 8 , three times ) , the pronunciation associated with " Standard " both in Jamaica and Britain . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd like to put on record how co-operative Copenhagen have been throughout this affair , ’ said the Linfield chairman . |
| 16 | Steve Cauthen is confident of a good run from Irish St Leger winner Mashaallah , but Magic Night has been in this battle before and this time she can win . |
| 17 | A bridge has been on this site from the 14th century . |
| 18 | ‘ That is how vital the help of the Mirror has been in this crisis . |
| 19 | The development of study skills was implicitly or explicitly part of every proposal made for inclusion in the ESSE/L Project , and as we have seen , the major thrust of recent inservice developments has been in this area . |
| 20 | But the broad trend has been for this gap between the experience of rich and poor worlds to narrow ( see the graph on Page 16 ) . |
| 21 | The Midland Fishery trout farm has been on this site at Horsley near Nailsworth since 1883 ; now its present owners have decided to sell . |
| 22 | ‘ Billy Bingham has been in this position so many times before and come up smiling . |
| 23 | This motion has been before this congress before and I am still pleased to be here to second this motion . |
| 24 | To date , three cases have been through this process . |
| 25 | Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway . |
| 26 | The family has been in this part of Scotland for about two hundred years or more , from what I can gather , and we used to own a lot of the land around here . |
| 27 | That Ruby Wax 's been on this week has n't she ? |