Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 2 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 3 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 4 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 5 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 6 | I had been looking through Situations Vacant in the local newspaper : ‘ Secretarial assistance required … |
| 7 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 8 | I had been overwhelmed with duties as head of the government , and had made no dispositions for the emergency which occurred . |
| 9 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 10 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |