Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 4 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 5 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been out of town . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 8 | Leee Childers : ‘ After playing in Pork , I 'd been back in America for about a year when the phone rang — it was Tony DeFries , David 's manager , who I had apparently met before but did n't remember . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 10 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 11 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 12 | But I could still remember what I had been through as Richie Quick . |
| 13 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 14 | Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away . |
| 15 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 16 | Arriving , triumphant , in Ulm in the late afternoon , I had within half an hour found the worst hotel I had been in in years , with the modest staff and a parking ticket to boot . |
| 17 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 18 | I 've been up to church . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 20 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 21 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
| 22 | Since I 've been over in England I 've bought a lot of clothes that I 'd probably never even consider wearing in Australia . |
| 23 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 24 | I 'm , I 'm asking , I 've been here since Saturday |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been here in Ralarth a fair while now , ’ he began , and the others stared at him . |
| 26 | I 've been on to Di this long time and have one like that , then you can and put down so you can have more room , you know , when you put it out . |
| 27 | Well I , I 've been on to world wom women 's committee and they assure me that they , the hospital says these tests should come through in a week , at the most three week 's , but you can phone them , so that certainly has improved , there does n't seem to be a back log . |
| 28 | I 've been round to Merle 's . |
| 29 | I could easily have been overawed , I 've been thoroughly on edge all week . |
| 30 | Erm I do n't think I did no , oh no they did n't they would n't think of doing that then , but they do now and erm then I , I 've been around at Wiggens the old hall table where people you know , worked in the warehouse there and I 've done all sorts |