Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [prep] this " in BNC.

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1 I mean I have been into this window frame business .
2 A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks !
3 I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be .
4 Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk .
5 I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up .
6 I have been in this city a week today .
7 ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before .
8 ‘ But I have watched you a little since you have been in this house .
9 And he told them : ‘ You have been in this court many times last year and obviously have n't learnt a lesson .
10 These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else .
11 WE have been down this road before .
12 ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days .
13 We have been without this issue as she is still receiving the last of her treatment from Charing Cross Hospital .
14 But we have been in this type of business for longer and will score on our expertise and we will also benefit from the ability we have through branch offices to handle claims . ’
15 But we have been in this type of business for longer and will score on our expertise and we will also benefit from the ability we have through branch offices to handle claims . ’
16 What is for sure , we need to be more active than we have been in this area if tennis is to flourish in this country .
17 Maybe they 're more cauti cautious than we have been in this country about the effect of Chernobyl .
18 ‘ I think we have been in this place long enough . ’
19 Most essential of all for the future assessment of public finance , we must establish a truly independent source of economic statistics to ensure that judgments are not distorted — as they have been under this Government , by political interference in their collection or presentation .
20 And I do n't think they have been for this last
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