Example sentences of "i have been [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been up practically the whole night , and all that driving with the sun dancing on the baked roads had n't helped . |
| 3 | When I 'd been there so long , next thing was clipping on . |
| 4 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 5 | Oh yes , I knew where he was , even though I 'd been unconscious going in and coming out , because I 'd been there before . |
| 6 | ‘ If I 'd been there much longer she 'd have been levelled down all right , ’ Bridie said with a grin . |
| 7 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 8 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 9 | and cos of like this have n't had , took them down , I 'd been down there three or |
| 10 | If I 'd been in earlier I might 've gone and seen |
| 11 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 12 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report . |
| 13 | I began to have doubts as to whether I had been right not to tell you what was going on . |
| 14 | ‘ When I had been here about six months I became aware of certain tensions both in the diocese and amongst the Cathedral clergy , the Chapter . |
| 15 | I looked around at the place ; I had been here before but it had never looked so huge . |
| 16 | Here again I learnt to admire and like these people , with whom I had been so recently at war , and to see clearly both the differences and the similarities between people of different nationalities and the fantastic ability of people to respond to leadership tuned to their needs . |
| 17 | I was angry that humans should be subjected to such degradation and I realised just how lucky I had been so far . |
| 18 | At length these bitter fruits of sin , and a sense of dependency on his providence for the averting those dreadful consequences with which others were imminently threatened , brought me to the repentance and gave me a victory over those guilty passions by which I had been so long enslaved . |
| 19 | I had been far too ‘ high ’ to last and a drop to reality was essential . |
| 20 | And even though I had been very well paid in my previous job , this would also enable me to reap the financial rewards of my expertise , ’ he says . |
| 21 | Perhaps I had been too forward , I thought , taken too much for granted . |
| 22 | I had been there once or twice but she had never set foot in my father 's new home . |
| 23 | His room was the most interesting I had been in up to then . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been away so long I felt a bit like the new boy walking into the old school when I arrived at the studio for Carry On Columbus , ’ he admits . |
| 25 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 26 | I 've been away about thirty . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been away too long . ’ |
| 28 | I know I also feel happy because I 've been not here for most of the day . |
| 29 | Well I 've been up practically the best part of the night with her , just crying . |
| 30 | I 've been up here tw twenty-three years and I did n't go out till I came here so I should say I was about twenty-two years ago I started back to work . |