Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 2 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 3 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 5 | I 'd been , a few weeks ago I 'd been to a wedding , and it was the most boring |
| 6 | I was watching for him erm I 'd been to the loo and I glanced out the er landing window and I thought it looked too tall for you . |
| 7 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 8 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been to the leisure centre , just across the road . |
| 10 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 11 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | I felt like a Run , so I left my jacket near the Pole I 'd been at the day Diggs had come with the news , and tucked the catapult tightly between my cords and my belt . |
| 14 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 15 | I 'd been in a couple of dreadful films by then — I think I 'd swooned , screamed , kissed the hero … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I 'd been in the jungle then . |
| 19 | Well I , I did nothing , I did nothing you see because erm , by the time I 'd been in the bathroom done the sandwiches |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I 'd been in the presenter role long enough to know I could do It . |
| 23 | Gladly would I have been in the condition of dog or horse , for I knew they had no soul to perish under the everlasting weights of Hell as mine was like to do . ’ |
| 24 | I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it . |
| 25 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 26 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 27 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 28 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 29 | S and er two or three friends , oh I , I had been on a number of cruises before that , to Germany , to Norway and Sweden , to Denmark . |
| 30 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |