Example sentences of "[verb] been [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well where was I ? , oh , must 've been when I went to the loo Have you had a drink Martin ? |
| 2 | And she seemed flustered when I demanded to know where she 'd been when I 'd been gassed right next to the ship . |
| 3 | would would help it , it 's it 's not quite secure enough , because it might have been before I arrived , but all the weaknesses show up |
| 4 | It must have been after I moved . ’ |
| 5 | It must have been as I said ; he saw you coming and deliberately kissed me . |
| 6 | Oh that must have been when I smacked my nose on my Walkman . |
| 7 | it , it may have been because I had raised some concerns , concerning that particular er statement |
| 8 | I do n't know what would have been if I 'd stayed . |
| 9 | How much better life would have been if I 'd known about that or used it ? |
| 10 | What use would it have been if I had gone into the lounge without something like that ? |
| 11 | I often wondered how different my life might have been if I had had a wife and family to come home to all these years . |
| 12 | Do you know what the total price of the tickets would have been if I had to pay for this , one hundred and ten pounds |
| 13 | Perhaps in his way he was the sort of cricketer I would like to have been if I had possessed the talent . |
| 14 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 15 | I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) . |
| 16 | One of the few occasions when she had been really cross with me had been when I suggested he might have been wiser to make some sort of provision for his wife and son . |
| 17 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |