Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 2 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 3 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 4 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 5 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 6 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 7 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 8 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 9 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 10 | I 've been cooking for 7 years now , including my school , my cookery school . |
| 11 | ‘ Lucky devil , I 've been trying for eight years and still have n't cracked it yet . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been trying for forty years and the margin of error 's still about eighty per cent . ’ |
| 13 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 14 | but I 've been reinstated to twenty three pounds |
| 15 | I did mention that er I 'm a retired tax inspector and I 'm very long retired , I 've been retired for thirteen years , thoroughly enjoying it , hope you too but your first questions w must be what the devil am I doing thirteen years retired tax inspector talking to you on a technical subject , why on earth ca n't you get the real thing ? |
| 16 | And I 've been living for seven years ! |
| 17 | they would allow me half now erm I 've been looking at one particular church , one denomination er , which is the Methodist Church , although it has been said already here this afternoon , or this morning rather there are an overall erm joint style with Methodist and with United Reform Church and erm I have personally the Methodist of last year , last September where it gives and also erm , mileage recommendations . |
| 18 | Like here in the north of Australia , I 've been waiting for two days for the light I need for a shot of some valleys . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been waiting for two hours . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been waiting for four or five games , so it 's a bit of a relief . ’ |
| 21 | I 've been waiting for forty years for it |
| 22 | ‘ Take my word for it , I 've been going for 30 years since the well was a bucket in a hole in the ground , and there is plenty of water , ’ she said . |
| 23 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 24 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 25 | He said , ‘ Listen , I 've been married to three actresses and if you want a career , I will send you merrily on your way . |
| 26 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 27 | I 've been playing for ten years and never hit a hole in one before — now I 've hit two . ’ |
| 28 | I would actually like to know your answer to this question , since I have been discussing with one or two other people whether one could hope to persuade Regional Railways to introduce a cheap fare for small groups of people , say on winter weekdays on quiet lines like the Central Wales and the Cambrian Coast . |
| 29 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 30 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |