Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 2 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 3 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 4 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 5 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 6 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 7 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 8 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |
| 9 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 10 | I had been in the armed forces long enough to know that you waited a long time for everything and I saw no reason why a dental appointment should be any different , |
| 11 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |