Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 2 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 6 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 7 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 8 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 9 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 10 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 13 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 14 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |
| 15 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 16 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 17 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |
| 18 | I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique . |