Example sentences of "i have [adv] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd no been to bloody .
2 I 'd never been to New Earth before .
3 I had no idea there was a class distinction , having lived in a sort of world of my own , and when I went to meet his parents in his house in Bromley , I 'd never been to such a small , little house where all the chairs had those things on the back where you catch the Brylcreem and you sat down and had high tea .
4 I 'd never been in this room before .
5 I had never been to such a show before — not at all the thing that well-bred young ladies are supposed to attend — but she made me laugh …
6 I thought I had never been in such great danger .
7 I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating .
8 I 've probably been in all the shops down there but I , I do n't know what the name is .
9 Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One .
10 That 's that actually I 'll do I 'll do th no I 've just been round most of those .
11 ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains .
12 I 've always been like that .
13 I 've always been like that .
14 I 've always been like that .
15 I 've always been like that .
16 I 've never been to that have you ?
17 I 've never been into virtual reality but as I guess I 'm on the younger side of your readership at 18 I bet it will feature strongly by the time I enter the working world .
18 I 've never been into that scene . ’
19 Bryan agrees : ‘ I 've never been into that sort of high speed guitar playing , and if I was it would have to be something very melodic .
20 I 've never been into that ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud ’ type poetry , could n't really get to grips with it .
21 I 've never been in one but I 've read so much about how to do it I 'm sure I could manage it . ’
22 ‘ You know , ’ said he , between great chewings , ‘ I 've never been in one of these places before .
23 In spite of himself Joe was impressed by the earnestness in Chris 's voice and said less forcefully , ‘ I know it 's easy for me to talk , I 've never been in this situation , but what 's going to happen ?
24 I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift .
25 I 've now been in this game for about eighteen years and I suppose thirteen of them I did n't have two beans to rub together .
26 They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down .
27 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
28 I have also been on many other outings with my family where we enjoyed nature together .
29 I have already been in this murderous rhythm for 10 years . ’
30 In a fabliau called La Saineresse , " The female blood-letter " , for instance , the deceptive actions performed by the deceiving character are actions entirely of speech , as a wife who has had sexual intercourse with a man her dull-witted husband believes to be a female blood-letter describes her act of illicit fornication to her duped and satisfied husband entirely in metaphors : ( Sir , thank you by the love of God , I have indeed been in hard labour .
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