Example sentences of "i [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 2 | Why could n't I have been born to be successful and brainy ? |
| 3 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 4 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 5 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 6 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 7 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been painting about being in love with Mary for the past thirty years . |
| 9 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 10 | ‘ The one consolation is that my husband Samuel and David and I have been invited to be in the audience when Go For It is filmed . |
| 11 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 12 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 13 | I have been criticised for being a distant figure who lives in a style of luxury that Britain can not afford . |