Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We 've all been through the war .
2 Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes .
3 I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know .
4 Well we 've only been to the dentist here .
5 ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before .
6 The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ?
7 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
8 That 's what I mean , I 've only been in the .
9 ‘ We 've just been through a decade where we watched surface responsibility get peeled away from a lot of people and institutions . ’
10 My dear , we 've just been on the most shattering binge in North Africa . ’
11 I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here .
12 I 've just been to the physio before I came here .
13 ‘ I 've just been into the village to post a letter .
14 ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’
15 Well , I 've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad !
16 I 've just been in the library , studying some of the books you recommended .
17 ‘ You 've already been to the Pentagon and the White House . ’
18 They 've already been to the Jonquil because of Sabine 's death .
19 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 .
20 I 've always been of the opinion that opposition are there to be hated and abused .
21 ‘ That 's because you 've always been in the mainstream of the English popular tradition , ’ said Maximilian .
22 And the closest I 've ever been to the slopes is flying over Switzerland .
23 They 're much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in the past .
24 So in some states it 's sixteen , in some states it 's eighteen , in some states twenty one er and Reagan thought it would be quite a good idea if they had uniformity across America er in which , you know , that they would raise the drinking age to twenty one er and this would then er reduce the incidence of teenage drunk driving and if you 've ever been in an American bar you will know you 're very often funnily enough they do n't ask me so much these days but you 're very often asked to prove your age , you know , er and you have to produce your driver 's licence and all the rest of it erm and so he increasing
25 ‘ We 've both been through a lot , ’ he began .
26 We know you 've both been through the HMS Dolphin Submarine Escape Tower and that you 've done more than a fair bit of free diving .
27 They 've both been through the same transmogrification . ’
28 ‘ And we 've also been over the fact that I ca n't accept conditions .
29 I 've also been in the situation at Old Trafford where we took just two points out of last 12 and still only lost the title by four points . ’
30 Now we 're delighted to see you here because we know that the , the G M B shares this view and we know that you 've also been in the forefront of introducing technology , er and we know also that having you here er , having your conference here , helps us enormously to continue this process of raising the profile of the trades unions , the trades council , the labour movement in the city .
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