Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that .
2 I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them .
3 ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time .
4 I 'd been using most of it anyway , like .
5 She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’
6 They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week .
7 I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night .
8 I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine .
9 The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’
10 ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at .
11 ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that !
12 I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris .
13 I 'd been planning that very thing . ’
14 Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were .
15 I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together .
16 But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own .
17 I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods .
18 I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock .
19 IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 .
20 If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two .
21 I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep .
22 I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy .
23 I had been washing all his hand .
24 Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit .
25 If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life .
26 For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind .
27 I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs .
28 I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications .
29 All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it .
30 Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period .
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