Example sentences of "been this " in BNC.

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1 Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’
2 Whilst I stand to be corrected , it may well have been this greasy property which made the finish dry out with a khaki tone .
3 It seems to have been this last line which caused the editors of the Annotated Index to the Cantos of Ezra Pound to provide one of the few pieces of misinformation in that admirable work .
4 ‘ That 's what I was on about , Boyo , ’ Taff answered , pointing to the spot a few yards away where the mortar team had been this morning .
5 You may ask me then : ‘ Why do n't we do just that ? why has there been this passionate search for some other method of preventing the fall in the value of money or controlling the fall in the value of money , if a cause and perhaps the major cause is undisputed , assessable and obvious ? ’
6 But there had also been this other vision — of the ‘ green wood full of primroses ’ — which he had glimpsed through a hole in the wall , and which promised all the things which Lewis and Greeves had come to label ‘ It ’ or ‘ Joy ’ .
7 Some psychologists point to a decline in the mid-1980s and blame new-fangled teaching methods ; others insist that things have always been this bad .
8 Nevertheless it is important to note that dividend pay-outs have not always been this low .
9 ‘ Why is it , do you think , that there 's been this incredible reaction to Phar Lap 's death ? ’ asks the reporter : ‘ After all , he was just a horse . ’
10 Had he always been this way ?
11 It is part of the explosion of interest in music there has been this century .
12 But of her job as Minister of Health she said : ‘ If I had been forced to pick any job it would have been this one . ’
13 It may not have been this boy 's fault . ’
14 ‘ To the pigs with the slops , where you should have been this mornin' , ’ replied his wife .
15 He was describing Denis Law but it could have been this era .
16 What then followed appears to have been this : the daughter died childless and her sister , inspired by father 's words , attempted to recover the estate from the heir who had been instituted .
17 No horses have been this way since you drove them off , ’ he said to Allen .
18 I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century .
19 This is nowhere more so than in West Germany , where some 800 pedestrianised areas exist with a mean size of 2,500 metres.So widespread has been this conversion of former car streets that the city centres of large German cities are effectively completely given over to foot traffic.36 Britain has been very much slower to recognise the benefits that pedestrianisation can bring .
20 Iveco has not always been this integrated .
21 According to Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade : ‘ It has always been this Government 's policy to put current services into the private sector where this makes sense .
22 As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit .
23 ‘ You have been this way before .
24 ‘ I 've never been this way before .
25 And how quick it had been this time !
26 Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively .
27 One fan said : ‘ I have n't been this wet since Pavarotti in the Park and at least the burgers were cheaper there . ’
28 Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ?
29 He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention .
30 The procedure , if it followed the usual course , would have been this : two doctors would be taken to see her and would ask her a few questions .
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