Example sentences of "[vb base] been [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All we 've been through this evening |
| 2 | I 've been over this part twice , and look at the water . ’ |
| 3 | We 've been over this place time and time again and there 's nowt for them to get . " |
| 4 | ‘ And where d' you think you 've been to this time of night ? ’ |
| 5 | Are you sure you 've been to this place before ? " |
| 6 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 7 | Most of us who 've been on this council some years will have seen the stress that the labour party brought on a number of senior officers who felt obliged to leave in what I would call distressing circumstances . |
| 8 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 9 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 10 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 11 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 12 | You 've been round this club now for long enough to have learned something of my reputation . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |
| 14 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 15 | I 've been in this position loads of times , like . |
| 16 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said . |
| 18 | We 've been in this house for about twelve years |
| 19 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 20 | Kerly added : ‘ I 've been in this game for 16 years . |
| 21 | You 've been in this job too long mate , you 're going senile . |
| 22 | It 's unfair , Bernard , you 've been in this job much longer than me , what do you think about this new menu for the canteen at Digby 's Ballbearings ? |
| 23 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 24 | I 've been around this house for |
| 25 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 26 | A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks ! |
| 27 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
| 28 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 29 | To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight . |
| 30 | To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’ |