Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 2 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 3 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 4 | in nineteen thirty and ninety thirty one I won the cup , I 'd been twelve year old then . |
| 5 | I 'd been half-hoping Vecchi might show before I sent Laura Channing out to what might develop into target-practice . |
| 6 | I read throughout the night , glancing at the bed from where , earlier the same day , I had been certain Francis was watching me . |
| 7 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 8 | Before I had been lifeless jumble of miscellaneous body parts but now I was Frankenstein 's monster , shocked by lust into coherence and action . |
| 9 | Because in my last five years before [ becoming Prime Minister ] I had been Foreign Secretary [ and ] , therefore , away a lot . |