Example sentences of "i [verb] been in " in BNC.

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1 basically so am I , I 've got to write a news in the next few days so I 'll see in early February tell him about the ideas , I 've also been in touch with another lobbying firm , I say been in touch but it 's quite easy because
2 How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him .
3 The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it .
4 ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’
5 After I 'd been in three years , I got married .
6 ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’
7 I 'd been in a light sleep .
8 It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women .
9 They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together .
10 It was difficult — you know , first time I 'd been in charge .
11 ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her .
12 And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either .
13 I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It .
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 there four months and they came and told me they 'd gone to America .
16 I 'd been in Drake Hall a week .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie .
20 If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well .
21 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 .
22 Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason …
23 I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’
24 Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it
25 " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted .
26 I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback …
27 I 'd been in the jungle then .
28 And I was with her till I left her somewhere in Southampton , I 'd been in her a good while too .
29 I 'd been in the city for too long , too many late nights staring at an empty page : the Muse and I had become jaded with each other .
30 I 'd been in a couple of dreadful films by then — I think I 'd swooned , screamed , kissed the hero …
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