Example sentences of "i [verb] [been] for " 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 But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. ,
3 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 .
4 ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea .
5 ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault .
6 ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’
7 I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really !
8 Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’
9 ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly .
10 ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’
11 ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday .
12 I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition .
13 I 've been for an interview with Mencap .
14 Just even I 've been for a wee !
15 There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters .
16 ‘ Gentle , indeed ! ’ she said ‘ And if I were as gentle in the market as I have been for him at home , how does he think I would manage ? ’
17 I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’
18 This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’
19 But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’
20 I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have .
21 Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’
22 A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’
23 Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time .
24 I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’
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