Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 2 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 3 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 4 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 5 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 6 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 7 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 8 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 9 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been out with a client , and one thing led to another . ’ |
| 11 | She no doubt thought I 'd been out in the sun too long . |
| 12 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 13 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 14 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 15 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 16 | By the time I got to the last rocker I had been out of the garage , round the block three times , back up the drive and home in time for teal Is there any way I can turn the engine over without moving the vehicle ? |
| 17 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 18 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 21 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 22 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 23 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
| 24 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 25 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 27 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 28 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
| 29 | I 've been right round the lot anyway so that 's jolly good . |
| 30 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |