Example sentences of "i have [adv] been [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I think perhaps the top clubs like I do n't I 've never been there .
2 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 .
3 I 'd already been away since I was nine , ’ Philip retorted .
4 No not in comparison to the jobs I 'd already been in .
5 And had known , took , took part in every one , right up I 'd never been away out of the town in the time the was on .
6 I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins .
7 I was skinny but I 'd never been so healthy in my life .
8 Mentally I 'd never been out of it .
9 I 'd never been there but there would have been a terrible fuss if I 'd taken off to Roundhay Park or Woodhouse Moor or somewhere .
10 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 .
11 I 'd never been abroad before , so it was a wonderful gift .
12 Dusk deepened until I could no longer see ten yards ahead , and after I 'd knocked the shaft of the arrow against an unseen hazard twice within a minute I stopped and sank slowly down to my knees , resting my forehead and the front of my left shoulder against a young birch trunk , drained as I 'd never been before .
13 When finally the daylight came , I was somewhere else I 'd never been before .
14 And Alice was saying well I 'd never been before , I did n't know it were that cheap .
15 And I 'd always been there , by his side .
16 I 'd only been back ten minutes when we started arguing again .
17 I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell .
18 if I 'd only been there when he died , I 'd of hold his hands , blah , blah , oh God , poor lass
19 as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’
20 I said this was the first time I 'd ever been there .
21 But we ca n't haunt places we 'd never been to , which is a bore for me , because I was so young when I died I 'd hardly been anywhere .
22 I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died .
23 I had also been very friendly with Jeff Jukes and Max Hole ( Max is the managing director of Warner Brothers and Jeff manages the Fixx and Rupert Hine , a very established producer ) .
24 For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware .
25 For my part it brought to light fascinating aspects of English language use about whose existence I had previously been quite unaware — or , perhaps better , about whose extent I had previously been quite unaware .
26 I took long breaks away from training and would then reappear like the proverbial bad penny , as if I had never been away .
27 I had never been away from Joe before , and I had no idea what was going to happen to me at Miss Havisham 's .
28 And I had never been away from home because er too far from the village .
29 I had never been away from home before .
30 I suspected it was because I had never been properly in love with anyone before , and the sensation was too strange , too pleasant , and too personal for sharing .
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