Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] [prep] this " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
2 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
3 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
4 | Well , what I thought was with this one world week thing at least people that , who go might be more receptive to what we have to say to show and sell . |
5 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
6 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
7 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
8 | She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room . |
9 | At last we were able to talk to people who 'd been through this . ’ |
10 | She had been at this long enough to know that , Caroline thought bitterly . |
11 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
12 | V.W. I tried to get something going last year after we 'd been on this girls in secondary schools course . |
13 | Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years . |
14 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
15 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
16 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
17 | It had been like this ever since she and Adam had escaped from Other world ; she seemed to have no strength left to decide anything . |
18 | It had been like this after the barbecue , she recalled . |
19 | It had been like this last night . |
20 | It had been from this influx that the rag business had started . |
21 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
22 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
23 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
24 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
25 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
26 | It was a long time since he had been like this . |