Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 2 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 3 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 4 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 5 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 6 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 7 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 10 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 11 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 12 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd previously been trained in management and I did n't want to be an audio typist . |
| 14 | And I 'd no been to bloody . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 16 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 17 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 18 | After I 'd kissed her goodbye I felt pretty happy because not only had I at last had an extremely enjoyable sexual experience , but I 'd also been able to give enjoyment . |
| 19 | ‘ On its own , perhaps not , but I 'd also been told that day that people believed you and an English journalist who lives here , James Cobalt , were making enquiries about drug trafficking . |
| 20 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 21 | I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who … |
| 22 | I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see . |
| 23 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 24 | Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate . |
| 25 | And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd already been away since I was nine , ’ Philip retorted . |
| 27 | I 'd already been to the forest couple of times as a student and thought it was the most wonderful place . |
| 28 | No not in comparison to the jobs I 'd already been in . |
| 29 | I 'd probably been teaching for about four years before I began to have that confidence . |
| 30 | I 'd probably been off-balance , what with the drinks and the crowds and everything . |