Example sentences of "[pron] have been [noun] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | after my second week he said I 'd got the gift of the gab or something and I always manage to wind people round my finger and always always get what I want and everything and I always took my way out of shit and I heard this from Matt , you can imagine how upset I was like on my I tell you er I heard about it on the field weekend cos I was here and Matt was here as well and , and I just thought my God I 've been friends with this bloke , we were having baths together when we were like two years old and , and I 've known him all my life and if you ca n't trust him well where does the , where , well you know , who can you trust ? |
| 2 | Mrs Owain Williams , who has been Chairman of this ball for the last three years , looked very pretty in black velvet . |
| 3 | There had been nights like this years ago , when they were younger , before there was a house and a television set , before they were married . |
| 4 | But there have been warnings against this — both from black parents and from the conservative popular press — and these are helping teachers to re-evaluate multicultural education and to consider much more fully why it is of benefit for all children and should lead to increased achievement and awareness amongst our pupils . |
| 5 | ‘ There have been disappearances like this before . ’ |
| 6 | Although there have been theories in this area which would suggest a linear relationship between arousal and performance ( e.g. Hull , 1943 ) the most common claim is that the two variables are related by the curvilinear pattern known as the inverted-U hypothesis ( e.g. Hebb , 1955 ) . |
| 7 | For years , of course , there have been rumours about this and that athlete . |
| 8 | There are occasions — there have been occasions in this Parliament — when I have to make a supplementary business statement . |
| 9 | There 's been concern over this area for several years but nothing 's actually been done . |
| 10 | She said , ‘ Oh , there 's happy I 've been with you two , there 's been life in this house , first time I 've known it ! ’ |
| 11 | so , ooh there 's been uproar about this bloody dog ! |