Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've all been in trouble with the police and all that malarkey , but that 's all part of growing up . |
| 2 | I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
| 5 | ‘ I 've only been in once . |
| 6 | This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money . |
| 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 | I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf . |
| 9 | That 's what I mean , I 've only been in the . |
| 10 | We 've just been in discussions with the manufacturers and we actually but we 're hoping to get a discount on that in the near future so we 're hoping the cost of that will come down . |
| 11 | I 've just been in the library , studying some of the books you recommended . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've already been in touch with the Secretary-General . |
| 13 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's because you 've always been in the mainstream of the English popular tradition , ’ said Maximilian . |
| 15 | I 've always been in trouble … |
| 16 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 17 | I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm fitter than I 've ever been in my life . |
| 19 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 20 | Erm the loyalist paramilitaries have become much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in their history . |
| 21 | They 're much more sophisticated than they 've ever been in the past . |
| 22 | 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 |
| 23 | The heaviest I 've ever been in me life is thirteen stone . |
| 24 | Hmm do n't think we 've ever been in |
| 25 | Rebel shareholders want to wrest control from a handful of family dynasties who 've traditionally been in charge . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I 've probably been in all the shops down there but I , I do n't know what the name is . |
| 30 | ‘ Since I became an officer in the SS , I 've often been in a position to satisfy my craving . ’ |