Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |
| 32 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 33 | Course , I 'd been to Cecille 's , half a crown for an hour . |
| 34 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 35 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 36 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 37 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 38 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 39 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 40 | I 'd been of less practical help , but Terry had encouraged me to make general criticisms of the scheme . |
| 41 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 42 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 43 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 44 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 45 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 46 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 47 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 48 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 49 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 50 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 51 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 52 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 53 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 54 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 55 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 56 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 57 | I 'd been with her for 12 hours at the delivery of her beautiful baby daughter . |
| 58 | I 'd been with Francis three years , living in his house , sleeping in his bed , caring for our child . |
| 59 | And I took it to my bank manager who I 'd been with for God knows , all my life , so nearly twenty years , and er he just laughed me straight out of the room . |
| 60 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |