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

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1 What she has achieved is remarkable given she is still very young and has only been in this business a couple of years .
2 If the client has not been through this process the search brief should be broadened to include this .
3 Appendix B. Right , Chris has already been through this part of it .
4 He has always been like this .
5 I 'd never been in this room before .
6 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
7 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 .
8 Even so , I did feel an enormous sense of anti-climax in the 200 metres heats and semi-finals ; I had not been through this in the Commonwealth Games because of my injury , and my lack of experience showed .
9 ‘ Sir , ’ he said to the court , ‘ I would be a dead man by now if it had not been for this gentleman . ’
10 She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this .
11 ‘ I 've not been in this part of the forest .
12 He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right .
13 And the unions had also been through this scene recently .
14 I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together .
15 Deep inside , I thought that George loved Lennie and vice versa because if it had n't been for this love , they would n't have been able to survive happily together .
16 I asked Miss Lofthouse if she 'd seen you and she said you had n't been in this afternoon . ’
17 In the past Stephen had sometimes been like this after being out late on the moor , feverish next day and light-headed .
18 In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ?
19 She had never been to this exalted place before and it seemed to be a place of dreams .
20 I walked to Coruisk from Sligachan and on to Camusunary and Kilmarie with a young American friend who had never been in this part of Scotland before .
21 Dancing had never been like this .
22 Loneliness and fear and grief had never been like this .
23 ‘ I have already been in this murderous rhythm for 10 years . ’
24 There are others which have not been like this , but have achieved positive things for their members and for their societies , such as democratic socialist parties .
25 So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ?
26 Taxes are higher than they have ever been in this country 's history , and the burden falls disproportionately heavily on lower-income families .
27 It 's always been like this between us , Jessamy . ’
28 Maybe it 's always been like this
29 ‘ It 's the only place he 's ever been outside this country .
30 Mm we have n't been through this way for a long time have we ?
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