Example sentences of "i [verb] been [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 2 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 6 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 7 | I 've been cos I have n't been to the R A F club for ages there . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 9 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |
| 10 | I have been but I always go home . |
| 11 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |
| 12 | Yeah , I have been cos I 've been bored really so all I do is study . |
| 13 | Lord , you understand why I have been as I have . |
| 14 | 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 . |