Example sentences of "the [noun] i have [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
| 2 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 3 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 4 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 5 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 6 | See all the firms I 've been to up till the Gas Board just gave you your money back for your pension . |
| 7 | Then I shout Consider the people I 've been around all my life , stylists , models , actors , producers , seat-warmers , air-sniffers , knee-crookers , cuecard-readers , place-men , moneymen — funny men , not straight men . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've loved all the men I 've been with and have kept on good terms with them except my ex-husbands , they 're my least favourite of all , ’ she said . |
| 9 | ‘ Father Poole , you ca n't imagine the hell I 've been through these past few weeks . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Do you have any idea of the hell I 've been through ? |
| 11 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 12 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 13 | ‘ In Africa there 's very little child abuse that is caused by intention because there 's an outlet in the parts I 've been to . |
| 14 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well I , I did nothing , I did nothing you see because erm , by the time I 'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches |
| 17 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 18 | So that was the time I 've been before a recorder . |
| 19 | But I think I may have to extend it — just like the politicians — because I have n't achieved anything in all the time I have been in my new home . |