Example sentences of "'ve been in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been in that sort of situation before , sitting in a dressing- room after losing to a team you 've been expected to beat . |
| 2 | Maurice Hope held a similar view , though he favoured social rather than genetic factors : ‘ Black people are natural fighters ; they 've been fighting for survival and they 've been in that condition all their lives . |
| 3 | I 've been in that block since it was built , it suits me fine . |
| 4 | In that netherworld state , while they 've been in that state of absorption . ’ |
| 5 | My mind 's a blank I 've been in that many different jobs now . |
| 6 | Well , I I find that totally impossible , I mean I know that , I 've been in that plot thousand of times . |
| 7 | What I am going to focus on is this terrible guilt feeling which is coming out while you 're giving me all this information , and I can see one or two nodding heads , I guess , I guess some of you 've been in that situation . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’ |
| 9 | Right up until I was n't able to do any more and able to , like all engineers you get most of the men when you get to the stage where you 're not able to crawl under cars and do things like that so you you find another bu business , we went into sales and , and er accessories , stores and that I 've been in all that line in the last twenty years before I retired . |
| 10 | I mean we did n't have any damp or anything in erm our flat , but I 've been in some of the downstairs ones , where they were very very damp . |
| 11 | Therefore if we have activists who are put on the panel alib fi safe seats , marginals or unwinnable seats and we 've been in some areas where it 's been unwinnable , have n't we Dick , we 've still canvassed , we 've got the votes up , p places like Macclesfield where they got Nicholas Winterton , where they got that racist Churchill . |
| 12 | I do feel I 'd like to say one point about the people who were in this house , that it 's quite clear , all of them I believe were under care of the social services , erm and I do n't know enough about their history to say whether they , where they 've been before , whether they 've been in some half-way house , or just been thrown out of some mental institution . |
| 13 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 14 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 15 | Kerly added : ‘ I 've been in this game for 16 years . |
| 16 | I 've been in this position loads of times , like . |
| 17 | We 've been in this house for about twelve years |
| 18 | I have to say this is the first time I 've been in this position since I took over . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been in this part of the country before , remember , ’ he broke off to explain at Isabel 's surprised stare . |
| 20 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 21 | You 've been in this job too long mate , you 're going senile . |
| 22 | ‘ We 've been in this situation before , where we 've needed a good result away from home only to lose 1–0 , ’ he said . |
| 23 | It 's unfair , Bernard , you 've been in this job much longer than me , what do you think about this new menu for the canteen at Digby 's Ballbearings ? |
| 24 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 25 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |