Example sentences of "this [noun sg] have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The midwife said to me , ‘ This child has been on this earth before ’ and I thought that was rather an odd thing to say , but the midwife seemed quite adamant . |
| 2 | Now if you cast your mind back to when we started the er discussion I did say I would talk about refer erm recommendations to you if you felt that this meeting had been of some benefit to yourself |
| 3 | Right in the course of our er er com our meetings Danny erm I will be asking you to recommend me to people but if , but only if you feel that this meeting has been of some benefit to you . |
| 4 | This assumption has been behind much of the conservative reaction to the ‘ Gorbachev phenomenon ’ . |
| 5 | This motion has been before this congress before and I am still pleased to be here to second this motion . |
| 6 | A few of the teenage mothers in this book had been in such a home . |