Example sentences of "[pron] have been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference . |
| 2 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane |
| 5 | 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 ! |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 8 | 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 ’ ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before . |
| 11 | I have been in this city a week today . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up . |
| 13 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 14 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 15 | House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it . |
| 16 | People who have been through this experience will describe how angry they feel with the doctor when having asked , ‘ How long ’ , they are told something like , ‘ We ca n't really say . |
| 17 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 18 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |
| 19 | And th I 'm sure every one of you have been in that situation where somebody 's suddenly popped out and committed themself to an overtake and they 've got nowhere to go at all . |
| 20 | And he told them : ‘ You have been in this court many times last year and obviously have n't learnt a lesson . |
| 21 | ‘ But I have watched you a little since you have been in this house . |
| 22 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 23 | Because of the repayments that were made of borrowing during that period , in the midst of a recession we are now in a better position to borrow prudently — than we have been at any stage in the past : to borrow prudently and to maintain our commitment to a balanced budget in the medium term . |
| 24 | It is he whose father was rebel Conservative MP Christopher Brocklebank-Fowler standing as a Lib Dem in East Anglia but we have been down that road enough . |
| 25 | WE have been down this road before . |
| 26 | Well , we have been for some time . |
| 27 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 28 | We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital . |
| 29 | All the reason that we have been against each other is because of economism and we , we |
| 30 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |