Example sentences of "i [verb] been [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 2 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 3 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen . |
| 5 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 6 | I 'd been to work all day and I 'd been and been running sheets off all night . |
| 7 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 8 | They 're over the river by this time , and so should I have been if you had not come so prompt to your hour . |
| 9 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 10 | I wish I had been 'cause I took CSEs at school and I got sort of fairly average grades ( 1 in music ; 2 in English ; 3 in history , general science and woodwork ) . |
| 11 | We found ourselves lost , just as Masha and I had been when a sudden mist had descended on the lower slopes of the Wetterhorn . |
| 12 | The first yard took all the effort I could manage , creeping a toe 's length at a time , my rubber soles slipping on the loose stones , as the wheelbarrow pushed me back to where I had been and we fell over . |
| 13 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 14 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 15 | I 've been after it for years . ’ |
| 16 | Yeah , and I do n't now but i I mean I 'm certainly in two I 've been since there 's people who 've referred to the fact that they do n't have those members of staff working for them at the optimum days , |
| 17 | He likes to know where I 've been when he 's away . |
| 18 | And the fact that I say that a lot of these accidents happen because perhaps you 're not paying the attention , very often I 've been or know of situations where the bloke is really paying attention to what he 's doing and the still the unfortunate occurs . |
| 19 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 20 | I 've been cos I have n't been to the R A F club for ages there . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 22 | The places I 've been and people I 've met have given me the confidence to carry on . |
| 23 | That , and my only tape , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , reminding me of where I 've been and where I 've come from . |
| 24 | Over the last six weeks or so I 'll tell you the places I 've been and the people I 've seen in the National Health Service . |
| 25 | I 've been and watched and contributed to some degree , erm or at least in listening to the reports of governors at the school , erm , in the allocation of some of their contracts , which of course include some being let under L M S and some being let under G M S , with regard to building and cleaning , they were very disappointed with the presentation that the D S O gave , and even though the D S O was eight thousand pounds less than the competing bidder , O C S , they gave the contract to O C S , and a report has had to be made to the district auditor to give their reasons . |
| 26 | No , I 've been and spoken to them again this morning and yesterday , R S C left it there not O S D although it 's O S D's van , so they should 've come out to move it on Friday and the mechanics did n't turn up , then they lost the keys , cos yesterday myself and who was it , Lyn , waited up for the keys cos they were gon na move down put it into a safer spot . |
| 27 | There 's only one branch that I 've been and that was Bury . |
| 28 | Mind you it 's a , I 've be I 've been and had a look rou er round there this dinnertime , quarter to eleven sh er quarter to twelve she 's supposed to start . |
| 29 | I mean , it 's like the jeans , I say , for Laura I paid fourteen ninety nine for a pair there , and eleven ninety nine for the other pair , well I 've been and got myself two pair cos I mean , it 's more or less all I wear just a , a couple of weeks before , and I 'd only paid twelve ninety nine a pair for my own ! |
| 30 | Oh yes I 've been and outside . |