Example sentences of "i [verb] [been] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 2 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 3 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 4 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 5 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |