Example sentences of "be [prep] [det] " 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 | Following the uprising and the overthrow of the legitimate government , whatever common interest there had been between these groups ceased and they began to fight each other . |
| 3 | In broad terms , the division has been between those who see an accumulation of reforms and a gradual erosion of bourgeois dominance as leading to a situation in which a relatively easy and peaceful transition to a socialist society will be achieved ; and those who regard reforms largely as mere palliatives , value the struggle for reforms mainly for its effect in developing working-class consciousness and organization , and envisage the achievement of socialism as a more abrupt event ensuing from a more or less violent final confrontation between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat . |
| 4 | I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’ |
| 5 | The Liberal Democratic Party has been through many name changes since the 1987 election . |
| 6 | Neil Young , the love-lorn introspective warbler , has , like every other Neil Young , been through many changes . |
| 7 | These shrubs were cut of fat ground level so that stools developed from which new shoots emerged — the stools can therefore be of very great age , having been through many cycles of cutting . |
| 8 | ‘ I have n't been drinking , Harvey , ’ she said patiently , as if this was a dialogue they had been through many times before . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But may have been through that earlier . |
| 11 | ‘ No , Charlie , of course you can ‘ t , we 've been through that . |
| 12 | Bull has now failed to score for seven games but Turner said : ‘ There is not a striker in the country who has not been through that sort of spell . ’ |
| 13 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 14 | In November , he warned that if the likes of IBM and DEC did n't implement drastic measures they 'd go through ‘ Holy Heck ’ — DG has been through that and if the company is confident about one thing , it is that the worst is over . |
| 15 | ‘ It is vitally important we get people who have themselves been through that experience , ’ said Christine . |
| 16 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 17 | She 's been through that process once , and it seems that she 'll stay immune to further absorption . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been through that ? ’ he asked . |
| 19 | We 've been through that . ’ |
| 20 | House prices will not rise in the same way and consumers who have been through that experience have been hard bitten by it . |
| 21 | Having been through that process once , the Social Security Committee is clearly interested in other areas . |
| 22 | yeah , erm yeah it was different erm with it only being role play it was a bit erm difficult to keep up with it sometimes and actually keep it going like , erm if it was the real life situation outside right you 'd know that the person you were talking to had more had been through that situation before |
| 23 | Er Eric and I know fully we 've been through that , fingers crossed behind our backs . |
| 24 | having been through that experience with Helen , he 'll be a lot more weary . |
| 25 | I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you . |
| 26 | Who will lose his legs — ‘ And sleep without his girl — ‘ ‘ My family have been through all this already . |
| 27 | I have been through all these emotions myself . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | He said , ‘ We 've been through all this before and it 's about time they were getting things right . |
| 30 | ‘ Fuck off , we 've been through all that . |