Example sentences of "have [been] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks !
2 ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days .
3 Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started .
4 I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be .
5 To live in a beautiful country , and to enure myself as much as possible to the labour of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my sigh at midnight .
6 To live in a beautiful country & to inure myself as much as possible to the labors of the field , have been for this year past my dream of the day , my Sigh at midnight — but to enjoy these blessings near you , to see you daily , to tell you all my thoughts in their first birth , and to hear your 's , to be mingling identities with you , as it were ; — the vision-weaving Fancy has indeed often pictured such things , but Hope never dared whisper a promise ! ’
7 And I do n't think they have been for this last
8 The rich picture should include all the important hard ‘ facts ’ of the organisational situation , and the examples given have been of this nature .
9 Though he survived and prospered , there have been times this season when the chances of Mr Stringer lasting as Norwich manager until FA Cup semi-final day seemed remote .
10 We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital .
11 Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation .
12 WE have been down this road before .
13 I mean I have been into this window frame business .
14 People who have been through this experience will describe how angry they feel with the doctor when having asked , ‘ How long ’ , they are told something like , ‘ We ca n't really say .
15 To date , three cases have been through this process .
16 He says they seem to regard it as a holiday and those birds that are over twelve months old have been through this before and seem to look forward to it
17 Your lads have been over this place with a fine-tooth comb .
18 Fortunately , not all recent pub refurbishments have been in this vein .
19 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 .
20 But we have been in this type of business for longer and will score on our expertise and we will also benefit from the ability we have through branch offices to handle claims . ’
21 But we have been in this type of business for longer and will score on our expertise and we will also benefit from the ability we have through branch offices to handle claims . ’
22 Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk .
23 ‘ I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up .
24 It is difficult to assess exactly how important such credit effects have been in this recession .
25 What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country .
26 I have been in this city a week today .
27 Had a case of a claim by a child for damages for pre-natal injury come before the English courts in the period from 1972 to the enactment of the Act of 1976 , and had it been as well argued as the present cases have been in this court , I have no doubt that the English court would have been referred to Watt v. Rama [ 1972 ] V.R. 353 and Duval v. Seguin , 26 D.L.R. ( 3d ) 418 and would have preferred the views there expressed to Walker v. Great Northern Railway .
28 ‘ But I have watched you a little since you have been in this house .
29 Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl .
30 ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before .
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