Example sentences of "i have been [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 2 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 3 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 4 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 5 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 6 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 7 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 8 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 9 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 10 | He throws me out anyway , a bad influence , a bad example , coming from the kind of home I did , I should know better , I 'd been given every chance . |
| 11 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 12 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 13 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 14 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 15 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 17 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 18 | I went through a period of depression erm I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told that I was suffering from various illnesses , but nothing helped . |
| 19 | But all the time I 'd been attending the doctor I 'd been told , first of all it was gall stones |
| 20 | I sat up feeling strangely light-headed and carefree ; maybe I 'd not had much sleep , but at least I had beaten the organist , at least I 'd been spared the Magnificat on an empty stomach . |
| 21 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 22 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 23 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 24 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 25 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd been doing the course and the basic thing they teach you is to take care when you 're ventilating a fire in a confined space , because you could get a flash-over , ’ he explained . |
| 27 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 28 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 29 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 30 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |