Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 3 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 5 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 7 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 8 | could n't I have been left alone |
| 9 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 10 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 11 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 12 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 13 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 14 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 15 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 16 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 17 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 18 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 22 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 23 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 25 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been going mad , ’ he returned in a hoarse voice , ‘ thinking of this ! ’ |
| 27 | Maybe that 's where I 've been going wrong all this time . |
| 28 | I have n't exercise like cos I have n't I have n't hardly I 've just er doing everything like , and I 've been working hard but |
| 29 | It was Charlie 's worst nightmare , he had to go through the public humiliation of denying he had a drink problem and retreated from the court saying , ‘ I 've been found guilty so there 's nothing anyone can do . |
| 30 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |