Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 2 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 3 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 4 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 5 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |
| 7 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 8 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 12 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 13 | I 'd been in the jungle then . |
| 14 | Well I , I did nothing , I did nothing you see because erm , by the time I 'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches |
| 15 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 16 | I 'd been in the city for too long , too many late nights staring at an empty page : the Muse and I had become jaded with each other . |
| 17 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 18 | I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it . |
| 19 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 20 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 21 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 22 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 23 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 24 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 25 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 26 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 27 | She says : ‘ I had been to the centre — which is really relaxed and informal . |
| 28 | I had been to the health club there . |
| 29 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 30 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |