Example sentences of "i [vb past] been an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been an assistant stage manager and a deputy stage manager at the Northcott Theatre , Exeter , before I went to drama school . |
| 2 | By the time I left his office , I felt as if I had been an established outside-left for years , ’ Bastin later recalled . |
| 3 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 4 | ’ So this particular sergeant who had been a PC when I had been an acting sergeant , sat alongside me . |
| 5 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |