Example sentences of "[been] [prep] this [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , we 've been through this public witch hunt before . |
| 2 | It had been like this last night . |
| 3 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 4 | Oh Danny 's been in this bloody car . |
| 5 | Sixty-two MPs , equally divided between Christians and Muslims , have been in this Saudi resort for the past two weeks examining a ‘ National Reconciliation Charter ’ drafted by Arab League mediators as the basis for a permanent peace . |
| 6 | ‘ I have already been in this murderous rhythm for 10 years . ’ |
| 7 | Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance . |
| 8 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 9 | He started to give her expert directions and it was plain that he must have been to this particular establishment before . |
| 10 | She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams . |
| 11 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 12 | Oh , very very big , he explained and stepped away from the end of the table to indicate with his hand where the tail would have been on this particular specimen . |
| 13 | I 've been on this big rant lately of how transition is natural , continental drift , the seasons , the weather 's different every day , people grow older and change … |
| 14 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 15 | What mischief have you been at this last while , then ? ’ |
| 16 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |