Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 2 | I 'd never been in a helicopter in my life ; you think , ‘ This is alright , ’ until you get in the bloody thing ! |
| 3 | I 'd never been in there before ; it was dark and stuffy and full of bloody , primitive colours . |
| 4 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |
| 5 | I 'd never been in this room before . |
| 6 | I 'd never been in love in my life till you came along . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd never been in there before but |
| 8 | But er , yes er , I would have been er , I think if I 'd still been in Jim 's place , er quite rightly so , getting all that we can for the town . |
| 9 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 10 | I was a gunner , I 'd only been in er |
| 11 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It was a process of necessity , really but , since it was just me and a Portastudio , it was the first time I 'd ever been in the position of being able to write and record without any kind of pressure from anyone else . |
| 13 | I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it . |
| 14 | ‘ I guess it was a big gamble to turn my back on Neighbours but I felt I had already been in the show too long , ’ says Kristian , who will still be seen in the soap in Britain for another 12 months . |
| 15 | Fortunately I had already been in touch with the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , whose representative I met by chance on their stand in an exhibition marquee during Environment Week . |
| 16 | I thought I had never been in such great danger . |
| 17 | I was terrified because I had never been in a proper prison before , and I had heard about Styal . |
| 18 | I had never been in one before . |
| 19 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 20 | I had never been in such a forest and found it fascinating . |
| 21 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
| 22 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 23 | I had long been in favour of CVRs but like many other people I was very dissatisfied with the quality , particularly the clarity of the only really useful part of the recording — that from the area microphone on the first channel . |
| 24 | I had only been in the force five weeks . |
| 25 | I had only been in prison eight days . |
| 26 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 27 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |
| 28 | My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life . |
| 29 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 30 | I 've probably been in all the shops down there but I , I do n't know what the name is . |