Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 2 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 3 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 4 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I 'd been rather afraid of that , too . ’ |
| 6 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 7 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 8 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 9 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
| 10 | I was just annoyed that he 'd chosen to do it while I 'd been away . |
| 11 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
| 13 | He 'd been practising it while I 'd been away . |
| 14 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 15 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 16 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 17 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 18 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 19 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 20 | But you see , if I 'd been properly organised , none of these disasters would have happened . |
| 21 | I 'd been fast asleep when he 'd come in from work the night before . |
| 22 | ‘ If I 'd been more , you know , responsive and that , then Denny 'd still be here today . |
| 23 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 24 | Looking back I wish I 'd been more courageous . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 27 | After seeing the picture of Scafell Massif taken in evening sunshine from the summit of Yewbarrow , I could n't help wishing I 'd been there . |
| 28 | The last time I 'd been there I nearly got caught bunking my fare . |
| 29 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 30 | Sergeant says to her , ‘ If I 'd been there , I 'd have done the same . ’ |