Example sentences of "[vb base] been [prep] [adj] country " in BNC.
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| 1 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 2 | Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl . |
| 3 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 4 | On the other hand it has to be said that the er publicity for that does not seem to have penetrated very far amongst foreign visitors and there is n't very much evidence that foreign visitors have been put off coming here in spite of the considerable number of incidents that there have been in this country , particularly in London of course in the last year or so . |
| 5 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |