Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] be [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 2 | No not in comparison to the jobs I 'd already been in . |
| 3 | Mentally I 'd never been out of it . |
| 4 | Landing in Nigeria , en route to Sierra Leone , and struck , initially , by the intense heat and strange , over-powering odours , Neneh felt frightened and alienated : ‘ It was like a world I 'd never been in , that was looking at me as being different — but also part of . |
| 5 | — Yes … well , I 'd better be off , had n't I ? — Yes . |
| 6 | Tony 's waiting for his Pot Noodles so I 'd better be off . |
| 7 | ‘ No , I 'd better be off , I think . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd better be off before we quarrel a second time , ’ he said . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , I 'd better be off . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd better be off — Pauline 'll be after me . |
| 11 | I 'd better be off . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I think I 'd better be off now . |
| 13 | ‘ I … um … think I 'd better be off , ’ said Malcolm Harris awkwardly . |
| 14 | I 'd only been back ten minutes when we started arguing again . |
| 15 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 16 | I 'ave n't been back to Tyler 's 'ard from that day to this — I could n't bear to . |
| 17 | I 'd just arrived , and I had n't been up to the village yet , or seen anyone . |
| 18 | I explained that I had n't been around as much as usual lately because I was pissed off with the way some people were behaving . |
| 19 | You 'd have had to work a lot harder if I had n't been around to help with those locks and cook your food , brew endless cups of coffee . |
| 20 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 21 | And I had n't been out of bath long I says do n't knock on my bastard door again I said , I 'll wring your neck . |
| 22 | well I had n't been out from Monday till yesterday Sharon 's at the hospital now with the babe |
| 23 | I had n't been back longer than ten minutes when I got a sledgehammer through my street door . |
| 24 | I had n't been back to Gallanach yet this year , had n't spoken to dad . |
| 25 | I had n't been back here . |
| 26 | Because of my knee cartilage operation , I started the 1990–91 season having done no downhill training at all during the autumn , a situation which I had not been in since 1980 . |
| 27 | I had not been back with Bill Francis two minutes before she appeared . |
| 28 | The day wanes , and if your words are to be believed then I had best be back in the security of your Rorim before nightfall . ’ |
| 29 | I 've probably been out playing and you 've probably been at the shops . |
| 30 | I 've already been up at your |