Example sentences of "i [vb past] been [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |
| 2 | Would of won it if I 'd been on |
| 3 | I 'd been up practically the whole night , and all that driving with the sun dancing on the baked roads had n't helped . |
| 4 | I 'd been up |
| 5 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 6 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 7 | K. M. I was on the Dingle Lane gate — Shell Mex place — and I 'd been down there a few months . |
| 8 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
| 9 | I 'd been down the prom on my bike , and was riding up the posh part to our street . |
| 10 | and cos of like this have n't had , took them down , I 'd been down there three or |
| 11 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 12 | She no doubt thought I 'd been out in the sun too long . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 14 | I 'd been out and I was out of it sitting in this shop doorway having this conversation with myself . |
| 15 | After all , I 'd been out of the Army a full six weeks by then . |
| 16 | I 'd been out the army about three days and I went to this dance with some army mates . |
| 17 | I 'd been out to meet someone , I was on my way home , I realized I did n't want to be going there . |
| 18 | The memory was only a couple of minutes old , but he felt that scrap of the past unravel to bring him back to the moment when she said , ‘ I 'd been out to meet someone . |
| 19 | It was the first time I 'd been out of the cell since 15 May . |
| 20 | I 'd been out with other boys other than Keith but they never touched me . |
| 21 | But you had to have qualified for it by working , see ? end of the week and the only place I ever had one was at and because the foreman approached me , I 'd been out of work and got the job by writing to it , going to the library and it was in one of the London papers , they wanted men for the tool rooms . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd been out with a client , and one thing led to another . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd been out of town . |
| 24 | birthday and I 'd been out , had a few drinks and that . |
| 25 | I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat . |
| 26 | But then that funny copper , Malpass , had known I 'd been out front on Sunday . |
| 27 | Yeah , well I 'd been out to the bin and er , he was just sort of erm by the ground by the bin bags the wood round the corner and er then he was sort of coming and he was like dying to come and have a stroke but |
| 28 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 29 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 30 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |