Example sentences of "i [pron] have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 2 | There , I myself had been a giant , an important person who had become famous for helping the people of that small country . |
| 3 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 4 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 5 | We all ended up staying at this inn about five miles down the road , and in the morning I was woken up really early by a phone call from Andrew Love , one of the Memphis Horns , who told me there 'd been an accident , and he was just checking to see if I was in my room . |
| 6 | The forensic odontologist told me there had been a deliberate attempt to make the teeth match . ’ |
| 7 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 8 | For me he 's been the best player on the field this first half . |
| 9 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 10 | I woke up at the part where he was telling me it had been a mindless fling , and I should n't get upset over it . |
| 11 | It was going to be used as a gardening shed for tomatoes but for me it has been the history and finding out about its past that has been the fun . |