Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
2 Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times .
3 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
4 I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember .
5 How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him .
6 I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’
7 They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together .
8 Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’
9 I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer .
10 I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks .
11 Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight .
12 I had been on all the northern capitals .
13 The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party .
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