Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 2 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 3 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 4 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 5 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 6 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 7 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 8 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 9 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 10 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 11 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 12 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 13 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 14 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 16 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 17 | I 'd been brought up on heroic stories |
| 18 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 19 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 20 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 21 | Which would presumably be the one I 'd been brought out through . |
| 22 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 23 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 24 | ‘ How could I have been taken in by his charm ? ’ |
| 25 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 26 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 27 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 28 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 29 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 30 | In Doncaster over Christmas , I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government . |