Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] been [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 2 | I was 19-years-old and , although I had been in action bombarding the Normandy coast and seen ships lost , the thought of this new venture alarmed me . |
| 3 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
| 4 | When I go back to the police station I 'll write today that I 've been at Harlowbury School all day doing a school visit and a school talk to different classes . |
| 5 | I 've never told any of my girlfriends that I 've been with prostitutes because I know they would be horrified . |
| 6 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 7 | Erm secondly , I 'm not a statistician , I am unable to comment about all the technicalities of the the various assumptions that go into things but some of the people sitting around this table will know that I 've been in Yorkshire and Humberside for quite some time . |
| 8 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 9 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 10 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 11 | Two hours later I am mentioning to Tony that I have been to Tromsø airport more times than I have to Gatwick . |
| 12 | In the nineteen years that I have been in Parliament , I can not think of anyone , save for Enoch Powell , who has been a more powerful advocate of liberal economics than John Biffen . |
| 13 | But , can I say this that what mattered most to me was the fact that I have been in conversation with so many people and to be able to allow that conversation to affect my faith and a faith that I have to proclaim day by day and Sunday by Sunday from the pulpits of my church . |
| 14 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 15 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 17 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It is part of the expectation of the President that I should be available to represent the Church , so I have been to Strasbourg to the European Parliament and also on visits to the churches in Nigeria and Kenya . |
| 19 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 20 | It 's a novelty , and I 've been with animals all my life . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I did n't get up Sunday , then I thought I 'd better go in to work on Monday , but I came home early and I 've been in bed ever since . ’ |
| 22 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 23 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 24 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 25 | And Salford-born Phelan , who has signed a five-year deal , admitted : ‘ My family and I have been through hell in the past couple of weeks and signing for City is such a relief . |
| 26 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 27 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 28 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 29 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 30 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |