Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Sunday , I went to one of the best planned and happiest birthday parties that I have ever been invited to . |
| 2 | ‘ Dana and I have always been photocopies , ’ Claudia said wearily . |
| 3 | Felipe had let me drive around the hacienda but I had never been on a road . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 5 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 6 | I crossed the Thames at Tower Bridge and walked further south than I had ever been before , and when I arrived at the rival market I could n't believe my eyes . |
| 7 | ‘ We have recently moved to this village and I have never been so bored in all my life . |
| 8 | But , like I say , I 'm a really big fan of guitarists and I 've always been a fan of the guitarists in the group , whoever they 've been . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Cavell and I have never been lovers , ’ Luke interrupted her incisively . |
| 10 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 11 | We 've known them for a while , they 've been travelling to games solidly for years and are better fans on that score than I 've ever been . |
| 12 | ‘ I am happier with Gwen than I have ever been in my life — I love her very deeply and I miss her when I 'm not there . ’ |
| 13 | Fenella and I have always been close . |
| 14 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been an Overseas ’ Corporation Executive for the last ten years and I 've always been told that the reason the Corporation could n't pay me the salary it paid to Americans doing similar work was because my salary had to be related to British salary scales . ’ |
| 16 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 17 | I could see a barge or something out there in the middle of the Thames but I 've never been much good with boats . |
| 18 | I have n't been too bad over the past few years but I 've certainly been left with the legacy of my habit . |
| 19 | ‘ This is my 11th war but I 've never been shot before . |
| 20 | That was the last time I used my LSI because I 've actually been ill since I got back — a touch of the Peruvian tummy-bug , which has put things out of the question ever since |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And compared to me she 's a much better person than I 've ever been , she is , she 's wonderful , in , but granddad 's got a nice nature , granddad and that 's , that 's probably where she get 's it from , I 'm not . |
| 23 | I rise to support the motion moved in Mr name and I have always been opposed to fox hunting full stop . |
| 24 | Well my wife and I have only been here , living here ooh just over twelve months now so we do n't really know the |
| 25 | So they had me as continuity and I got the job and it was a bit of a struggle because I 'd always been traffic , traffic at work but this was a little bit different in that if you had to do more accountancy and I had to pick it up . |
| 26 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 27 | The living creature that I had briefly been might never have existed . |
| 28 | ‘ Len and I have always been good mates . |
| 29 | For a short time I was completely clammed up with Marian because I had never been allowed to talk about myself with my wife . |
| 30 | I promised them I 'll be as good a manager as I 've ever been . ’ |