Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh adv] i [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 2 | And I did n't feel any more afraid , walking into the flats , than I would have felt walking on the road at night you know in in where I 'd been before . |
| 3 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |
| 4 | Early on a Sunday morning I walked up Plateros and then through the narrow streets to where I had been told a bus , colectivo — some form of transport — would leave . |
| 5 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 6 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 7 | ‘ I realised if I wanted to get back to where I had been , it was perhaps better going back to North and starting off there again . ’ |