Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 2 | When I was a postgraduate student , for example , I was about to embark on a research project on a topic I 'd been involved in for many years . |
| 3 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 5 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
| 6 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 7 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 8 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 9 | If I 'd been smarter , or less vain , I might have realized that this meant that my former role was now vacant . |
| 10 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 11 | I had tried since , alone and with others , and I 'd been tongue-tied . |
| 12 | I explained how I 'd attempted to fire at the Corporal as Kaptan lay on the ground and how the gun had malfunctioned ; it would be more accurate to say I 'd been first to aim but the Corporal had got his shots off first . |
| 13 | As he told Lahr : ‘ Up to that point I 'd been brittle and arch with Halliwell , because I sensed his inwardness and his desire not to talk . |
| 14 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 15 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 16 | Two kids I 'd got when I 'd been married as long as Hatton . |
| 17 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 18 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 19 | and then other , like this morning I woke up about quarter to seven , well I 'd been awake a while but I thought I 'd came to at quarter to seven I went down and make some tea and having breakfast |
| 20 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd been right , she was n't the inquisitive type . |
| 22 | Yesterday , after I 'd been round to see you . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 24 | It did n't take me long to realise it was very different from the kind of journalism I 'd been used to . |
| 25 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 26 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've got a special licence in my pocket ; if I 'd been obliged to go to Paris you 'd have come with me as my wife . ’ |
| 28 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 29 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 30 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |