Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 2 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 3 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 4 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 5 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 6 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 7 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 8 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 9 | At least by 1960 it had been recognised in this jurisdiction that it connotes a duty not to injure one 's neighbour by want of reasonable care . |
| 10 | We found ( Appendix II , section 5 ) that on one London estate where we held group discussions several people lived at addresses which they said had been blacklisted in this way , because of bad payers who had lived there before them ; as a consequence , they felt they were being made to suffer from the bad reputation of the previous tenants . |
| 11 | A sepoy with a green turban had had his spine shattered by The Spirit of Science ; others had been struck down by teaspoons , by fish-knives , by marbles ; an unfortunate subadar had been plucked from this world by the silver sugar-tongs embedded in his brain . |
| 12 | The notice of payment of tax as determined by the General Commissioners had been sent to this address . |
| 13 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 14 | Um she looked for um she looked at er a survey of two thousand odd adults that had been conducted in this country . |
| 15 | Indeed , after the lord pope had heard sufficient arguments from both parties , he decreed with the authority of the apostolic see that the same archbishop should demolish the church at his own expense , revoking completely everything that had been done in this matter . |
| 16 | Quite recently the King of France and the King 's own sister , Queen Margaret of Scotland , had been obliged in this way ; but now Queen Catherine 's uncle , the German Emperor Charles V , held the Pope virtually prisoner in Rome and had compelled him not to agree to Henry 's divorce . |
| 17 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 18 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 19 | ‘ We were contacted last Friday by a woman who had been asked by this man to make a donation to War on Want . |
| 20 | Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way . |
| 21 | Originally , two representatives from each of Russia 's republics and regions had been invited to this meeting . |
| 22 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 23 | Mr Kuntar , one of two alleged ‘ kidney brokers ’ , came into the room and told him his kidney had been given to this man . |
| 24 | But by the end of the 1970s , added impetus — and critical changes of direction — had been given to this expansion . |
| 25 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 26 | Alexei had expected to be seated beside Tulagai and Targoutai , the half-brothers of Nogai and T'zin , but instead he had been led to this place beside Siban . |
| 27 | She did not want to pretend pleasure at being here and she did not want to witness even more proof of the life that had been led in this house , all of it with her father . |
| 28 | He had been summoned to this meeting at short notice . |
| 29 | It is difficult to believe that the historians were not party to such constructions , although Goody might justifiably envisage that such honourable men as Thucydides would have been shocked if his material had been manipulated in this way by the politicians . |
| 30 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |