Example sentences of "i have [adv] [been] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd previously been trained in management and I did n't want to be an audio typist . |
| 3 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 4 | I 'd never been surrounded by so many nice things before , not even at the Lewises ' . |
| 5 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 6 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 7 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 8 | I 'd always been fascinated by the people who live on the skid rows of our cities — the ones we regard as the scum of the earth . |
| 9 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 10 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 11 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 12 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 13 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 14 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 15 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 16 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 17 | If I had n't been trapped by marriage so young … who knows what might have been … ? |
| 18 | But the harsh reality is that if I had n't been picked by England for the tour to India , I would have struggled to make ends meet this winter — I do n't know what I would have done . |
| 19 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 20 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 21 | As it was , they were all staring fixedly at the entrance to the place , so I had already been inspected by them . |
| 22 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 23 | But I had not been raised to be merely decorative . |
| 24 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 25 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 26 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 27 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 28 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 29 | Though I had never been hurt like this before , strangely enough I bore him no resentment for these beatings , accepting them as the penalty for what I had done . |
| 30 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |