Example sentences of "i have [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it .
32 I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing .
33 I had been into Zambia , but not very often
34 One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived .
35 Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me .
36 I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work .
37 I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home :
38 As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years .
39 I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters .
40 I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ .
41 The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled .
42 I had been on diets and to put it in context , over twenty years I 've lost a hundred and twenty stone !
43 Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . )
44 I had been to London on comparatively few occasions before coming to Bletchley , and it was still to me a place of awe and wonder .
45 I HAD been to Lourdes before .
46 I had been to Balsall Heath Health Centre on Edward Rd. with the NCT so we went there and all the other H.C.s and asked the Health Visitors .
47 I had been to church , but I did n't tell her .
48 ‘ The night before we were arrested , I had been to dinner with Nick Wells , and I asked him if he had heard anything , and he said : ‘ No , it 's all water under the bridge , I suppose . ’
49 During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation .
50 I had been to Mr Grover for a complete check-up .
51 Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks .
52 Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me .
53 I had been with Jamie in the pub , then with him and the girl outside , then alone when I was running , and then with Jamie and later him and his mother , then I walked home almost sober .
54 " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu .
55 as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris .
56 With only an usher for company , he showed no outward signs of distress as he said : ‘ I had been in bed for five minutes waiting for my mummy .
57 Well , I had been in bed and asleep earlier in the night .
58 A few weeks before my talk at Wellesley College , I had been in New York at the invitation of Social Policy , a leftist magazine with a record of antipathy toward IQ testing and its social implications .
59 I had been in New York when Masquerade was stolen .
60 By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years .
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