Example sentences of "[verb] been [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 It may have been during this period that he was supported by a canonry in St Peter 's , to which he later referred as pope .
32 It also gives the information that Rolle was " accustomed to show himself very familiar to recluses , and to those who needed spiritual consolation " and it must have been during this period of his life that he met his disciple Margaret de Kirkeby .
33 He would n't have been on this airwell at the time , though .
34 He had visited the place in 1937 and it must have been on this occasion that he took photographs of the village and of St Michael 's Church there ( where later his ashes were to be interred ) .
35 If I had my way you 'd have been off this boat days ago .
36 Considering how many times he must have been through this script , there are a lot of ‘ ums ’ and ‘ you knows ’ and pauses , but eventually we get there .
37 Damn Lori and her unreasoning jealousy ; but for her she would never have been in this position .
38 ‘ If she had done her job properly , I would never have been in this mess in the first place . ’
39 Erm , although I think Helena Landless could have been in this tradition do n't you ?
40 ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’
41 It will have been in this connection that he wrote the discarded pieces " On music and words " , which largely rework part " of " The Dionysiac Philosophy " of the previous year , but whose copious references to Schopenhauer , opera and Beethoven 's Choral Symphony relate directly to one side of the Wagner problem , though without any explicit stress on that fact . "
42 Must have been in this room when I got here .
43 The other man may never have been in this situation before .
44 In years of high prices 20 per cent would have been in this situation , while in extremely hard years , such as 1801 , the proportion would have exceeded 40 per cent .
45 , take some photographs of car parks , should of been there weeks ago and she and you have to be ready for , she should have been in this week how he 's going to get them to do that , there 's a train , there 's a er few hours service or what , it 's gon na cost a bomb And he 'll probably end up paying for it cos he I do n't know whether he 's doing it or not , it 's what he should of been doing .
46 It is difficult to visualize now , but it must have been within this pavilion that the young Roshanara consulted her spies as she reclined on carpets beside the gently bubbling irrigation runnels .
47 As I looked at the faces marching past with a smart eyes right , I could n't help thinking of those who would have liked to have been on this parade ; those still manning the trenches , and all those buried in a shallow grave in the orchards around the village .
48 Henry Newbolt was at this time Hewlett 's neighbour in Wiltshire , and it seems to have been at this Christmas time that Hewlett took Pound to see Newbolt , who figures elsewhere in Canto 80 :
49 Waqar about to return to the battle , Gower outwardly calm , than whom no Englishman would have preferred another to have been at this place at this hour .
50 I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks .
51 It 's claimed the night she died , Kim had been to this nightclub near the Champs Elysees and had returned late with a friend and the accused .
52 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 .
53 When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods .
54 He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast .
55 It had been from this influx that the rag business had started .
56 It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months .
57 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 .
58 He remembered the last time he had been in this situation .
59 All we 've been through this evening
60 I 've been over this part twice , and look at the water . ’
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