Example sentences of "that [pron] have [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One .
2 But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin .
3 ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life .
4 I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘
5 Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before .
6 The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train .
7 You might like to know that I have recently been in touch with a Mme Francine Roussel ( University of Nancy II , 23 Blvd Albert 1e , Nancy 54000 ) who is just completing a survey review of concordancers .
8 Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality .
9 This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren .
10 She once reported to Robert Landgrebe , marketing manager , in a voice of genuine shock that she had just been on an aeroplane with three accountants ‘ and do you know , they tried to talk to me about design ’ .
11 I even found it difficult to believe that she had ever been in cahoots with Mr Broadhurst .
12 That she had always been in control before he had come on to the scene and turned everything upside-down .
13 Wellington 's riposte was that she had never been to South Africa , while he had and was therefore in a position to judge properly .
14 This was challenged by one of the defendants who maintained that she had never been on stage in a state of total nudity , as the police present maintained .
15 Her situation is slightly more complicated in that she has also been in prison .
16 ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’
17 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 .
18 It 's clear that you 've never been in the services . ’
19 Worst of all , no one seemed to have remembered that we had already been round this particular course , decided the policy , and rejected compulsory private health insurance .
20 The amazing thing to us was that we had both been in the Air Force for years , but had n't met until the war was over .
21 The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France .
22 ‘ And the odd thing is that of all the people who complained to you after that sermon that they 'd never been to Rome only Sister Dew has taken advantage of this opportunity to go there . ’
23 It is just that they have both been at it too often recently .
24 They share the fact that they have all been of limited duration but , within that framework , one has been concerned with local skills training , four have involved modules contained within honours degree courses ( Typography and Graphic Communication , Library Science , Publishing and Computer Science respectively ) and one has been at postgraduate level .
25 Examination of the metal showed that it had always been in a clean condition with no evidence of corrosion , suggesting that it had never been buried .
26 The two cases also show that change is a possibility , but that it has mainly been in the past through change in the hierarchy 's and clergy 's attitudes as well .
27 If he looks at the statistics , he will see that it has always been like that .
28 That it has been ‘ the only game in town ’ , as many have argued , has not meant that it has necessarily been worth following , either from an Israeli or a Palestinian view .
29 ‘ We have been so sensible , fair and reasonable with Lovell Homes that it 's probably been to our detriment .
30 Glancing at the clock on the wall now , Rory realised to her amazement that he 'd only been in the farmhouse for three hours .
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