Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 2 | I thought it would be quicker , you see and I 'd been in the services as well , because I used to give a subscription to British Legion |
| 3 | I had been on the borders of a virtually unexplored land inhabited by dangerous , untouched tribes . |
| 4 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |
| 5 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |