Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 2 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 3 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
| 4 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 5 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 6 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
| 7 | Ninety ( 72% ) patients were over 70 , although only 14% of the population studied were above this age . |
| 8 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 9 | It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused . |
| 10 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 11 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 12 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 13 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 14 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 15 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 16 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 17 | In 1984 , the Court of Session in Edinburgh ( Hay/Briton against Central Regional Council ) refused a 53 year old grandmother custody or access to her six year old grandchild , though it was agreed that the ‘ most significant relationship ’ the child had was with this grandmother . |