Example sentences of "i [pron] have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There , I myself had been a giant , an important person who had become famous for helping the people of that small country . |
| 2 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 3 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 4 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 5 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 6 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |