Example sentences of "i have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 2 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 3 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 4 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 5 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 6 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 7 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 8 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 9 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 10 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 11 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 12 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 15 | While I had been away at the Wye , the silver-grey had either moved her family to a new nest of had fallen foul of a fisherman 's trap . |
| 16 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 17 | I had been away in London for the day , about three or four days after Dana 's departure . |
| 18 | The two and a half weeks I had been away from home seemed like years . |
| 19 | Earlier in the month I had been strongly against any idea of coalition … |
| 20 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 21 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 22 | And I had been once in a , a cruise liner to the Canary Islands and Madeira in nineteen thirty five . |
| 23 | Now , if I had been more like you , Catherine … |
| 24 | Dermot and I had been together at Eton but then Dermot was one of the Lower boys who came when I shouted " Boy " . |
| 25 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 27 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 28 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 29 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 30 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |