Example sentences of "[that] i [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since I married my husband I 've only met two men , that 's in seven years , that I 've even been tempted with , ’ said the voice above her . |
| 2 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 4 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 5 | ‘ I ca n't believe it 's such a coincidence , that I 've actually been staying in the house of the person I came to look for ! |
| 6 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't think that I 've ever been questioned about them . |
| 8 | Warnock , under fire after a 6-0 blasting by Millwall , said : ‘ Millwall was a body blow but I 've told my players that I 've always been a fighter . |
| 9 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
| 10 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 11 | There , in the fact that , that same evening , when I can promise you that I 've always been a most truthful man , I , to my own amazement , discovered that I was mouthing lies . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
| 13 | ‘ I think so — as far as I can , bearing in mind that I 'm Jewish and that I 've never been remotely religious . |
| 14 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 15 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 17 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
| 18 | I 've realized that I 've never been out of love . |
| 19 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 20 | And erm this was the first time that I 'd ever been sort of as far afield into the country as this , and to go and see the erm er Toll Bridge at , that was , and top go over it , because it was a long wooden bridge that used to go over , and er we thought that was absolutely fantastic . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 23 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 24 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 25 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 26 | The living creature that I had briefly been might never have existed . |
| 27 | 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 ’ . |
| 28 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |