Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 3 | I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone ! |
| 4 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 5 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |