Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 2 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 3 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 5 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 6 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 7 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 8 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 9 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |
| 11 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 12 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 13 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 14 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 16 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 17 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 18 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 19 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 20 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |
| 21 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 22 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 23 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 24 | I 'd been in a couple of dreadful films by then — I think I 'd swooned , screamed , kissed the hero … |
| 25 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 26 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 27 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 28 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 29 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 30 | I 'd been in the jungle then . |