Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] this [noun sg] " 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 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
| 4 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 10 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 11 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
| 12 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |