Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [prep] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As many parents have discovered , the problem with disposable nappies up to now has been with that word ‘ disposable ’ . |
| 3 | erm The response has been for that authority then to groin its bit of beach , and so we end up with a situation today where along the Sussex coast practically the whole of the coast is groined , except for the areas which are backed by high cliffs , erm where we have the sorts of rates of erosion that I mentioned . |
| 4 | For example , we all know that productivity growth in the UK has been inferior to West Germany 's over the post-war decades ; that product development has been behind that of Japan ; and that over many years the rates of growth of South Korea , Italy and East Germany were higher than the United Kingdom 's . |
| 5 | It has been like that all through the history of the place . |
| 6 | It has been like that , something that was n't happening to us . ’ |
| 7 | Brockbank said : ‘ It has been like that since day one , but many clubs are like that . ’ |
| 8 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 9 | How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ? |
| 10 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 11 | I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism . |
| 12 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 13 | She says , Ali Carver , she said they 'd been to that last Saturday night with a couple from and she said they paid fifteen pound just them |
| 14 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 15 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 16 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared . |
| 19 | It must have been at that time that his habit of keeping notes on his travels began . |
| 20 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 21 | She had said ‘ the rest of you ’ and I had never heard her so distance herself before , but what astonished me was the realisation that my father must have been at that party , must have returned with my mother to the villa in the small hours , must have been aware of me in my little white pyjamas and Panama hat . |
| 22 | And he came down he would have been working for he would have been at that time my great grandfather maybe or and he came down and he lived in lower Millfield after that and just as soon as he was out of his house , they just had the house demolished . |
| 23 | And they would have been at that muckle supper . |
| 24 | The Ministry did tell us not to waste effort growing flowers , but somehow one always felt they were not quite as right as they might have been on that one . |
| 25 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 26 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 27 | And we might , might well have been on that train that had the crash . |
| 28 | Could have been on that boardwalk thing that we spoke about just across the road . |
| 29 | That 's why I have to keep an eye on it cos that blind and that , but it wo n't come yet , it would n't have been on that , that was priced it . |
| 30 | Could have been on that . |