Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos I 'd been there that morning |
| 2 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 3 | I had been out all day with my gun , but without success . |
| 4 | I had been out all day and I had eaten nothing since breakfast . |
| 5 | She simply tells me something , as if I had been there all the time . |
| 6 | I 've been away all this week because my wife took a telephone message from Nora yesterday and it is it is in our parish . |
| 7 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 8 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 9 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 10 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 11 | I 've been up all night . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 13 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 14 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 15 | One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is . |
| 16 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's nigh on two year since I 've been out that house , ’ said Bella suddenly , ‘ since the Warden took me for that X-ray after I fell over and hurt me wrist . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been out all day . |
| 20 | Well I 've been out all afternoon so I wondered if you 'd phoned in this afternoon . |
| 21 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 22 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 23 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 25 | erm , I , well I ca n't commit myself to going down to that to , I mean if it 's , if I can I 'll give you a ring because with Cherry being off as well it 's , I mean it 's gon na be unfair if I start , cos I 've been so much |
| 26 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 27 | I have been here less than a week and already it feels like home , ’ he said . |
| 28 | But I have been up all night comma , too tired , but I was really homesick . |
| 29 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 30 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |