Example sentences of "[adv] been [prep] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Had it not been for that publication Sally might have avoided that almost overwhelming sea of troubles which resulted from harmlessly intended praise . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ owing to the presence of which ’ This point is normally covered in any witness statement that might be available , viz. ‘ I saw four vehicles were involved etc. ’ or ‘ if it had not been for that vehicle the accident would not have happened ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | She had not been in that position . |
| 5 | Some people have already been down that road ! |
| 6 | just been on that film Barry Norman was on there and er |
| 7 | yeah and he went and she said well it that 'd always been across that road |
| 8 | ‘ And for all the way she bullied other people , she 's always been under that fellow 's thumb and so has Dympna . ’ |
| 9 | Have you ever been to that Corby market ? |
| 10 | In socialist France , it is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 11 | In socialist France , unemployment is now higher than it has ever been in that country 's history . |
| 12 | Have you ever been in that place ? |
| 13 | You have n't been outside that door for days . |
| 14 | I would have died too if it had n't been for that telegraph pole . ’ |
| 15 | And I 'll tell you somethin' else : your mother would n't have died if it had n't been for that man . ’ |
| 16 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 17 | The demolition workers had n't been in that day . |
| 18 | If I had n't been in that bar at that time , perhaps all this would have happened to somebody else . |
| 19 | Accidental fires do happen when the Peak is very dry but we have n't been in that situation yet . |
| 20 | I 've never been into that scene . ’ |
| 21 | Bryan agrees : ‘ I 've never been into that sort of high speed guitar playing , and if I was it would have to be something very melodic . |
| 22 | See it 's never been off that heating . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , with a marginally less successful Cup than League record , Athletico have never been in that position . |
| 24 | ‘ They have never been in that position before some of them are classic cases of Thatcher 's children . |
| 25 | Among them are a surprising ( or is it ? ) number of aeroplanes bearing Cayman Islands letters , many of which I 'll bet have never been near that tax ; haven , the late Cap'n Bob 's pair of liquidator-awaiting , Bermudan-registered Gulfstreams , appropriately VR-BOB and VR-BRM , and a host of N-numbered machines which no doubt the Gatwick-based FAA inspectors looking for illegally operated U.S.-registered aircraft will find enlightening . |