Example sentences of "i [verb] been [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 2 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 3 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 4 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 5 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 6 | I 've been fined thousands of dollars for much less than Senna did . |
| 7 | I think it was Professor Thomas Torrance who replied to a question concerning his ‘ conversion ‘ with the reply : ‘ I have been converted three times . |
| 8 | But I have been divorced 30 years and know I 'd feel the same as the man who was jailed if I found my wife in the arms of someone else . |