Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like , I 'd been to church , been to Sunday School , so I knew all the stuff in the Bible , but I guess I needed to envisage it … see it , in my own terms . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 3 | And I 'd been to As I tell you , I 'd been to night school , joinery classes . |
| 4 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 5 | Somebody asked me years after I 'd been to college if it was still there . |
| 6 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 7 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 8 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 9 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 10 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 11 | If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter . |
| 12 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 13 | Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out . |
| 14 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 15 | I 'd been in Drake Hall a week . |
| 16 | ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’ |
| 17 | It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge . |
| 18 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 19 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 20 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 21 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 22 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 23 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 24 | I had been to church , but I did n't tell her . |
| 25 | ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’ |
| 26 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 27 | With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy . |
| 28 | Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night . |
| 29 | In alluding to Ronald Duncan and The Criterion , he was referring to a proposal by Duncan — with whom I had been in correspondence , though I did not meet him until after the war — that I should write for The Townsman ( a magazine which he edited from an ancient mill situated in a valley on the Devon/Cornish border , where I was later to live and write about ) , an article analysing the reasons why The Criterion , after flourishing for seventeen years , had so suddenly come to an end . |
| 30 | Though I had been in Casualty longer than the three weeks Sister had talked of on my first morning , and by Cas. rules was temporarily senior to Daisy Yates , it was Daisy who was sent to join the Accident Nursing Team . |