Example sentences of "i [verb] been [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 2 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
| 3 | in nineteen thirty and ninety thirty one I won the cup , I 'd been twelve year old then . |
| 4 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 5 | I had been one of the twenty-eight ( twenty-six plus two tellers ) Conservative Members who voted on 29 July 1954 against the conclusion of the treaty with Egypt under which that evacuation took place . |
| 6 | To think that not so long ago I had been one of these creatures , peddling off through the drizzle to a dead-end job ! |
| 7 | If I had been one of their advisers when TV came along I would have said : ‘ Do n't meddle with it . ’ |
| 8 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 9 | He says to me he says to me he 's , I 've been two or three time while he been int garden he says every time you come in here you lock your car , he says why you 're only int garden , I says well I 've lived round here for a lot of years , ha , I says and when you 've lived here long enough I says you 'll be locking your car every time you get it out . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been one side of the camera for long enough , ’ he smiles . |
| 11 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 12 | He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’ |
| 13 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 14 | I 've been thirty years in the business and this is the one place I have been where there are not petty jealousies or anything like that . |
| 15 | Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it . |
| 16 | ‘ After all , I 've been sixteen myself . |
| 17 | , I 've been smoking since I wa twe , since I 've been twelve and I just canna stop and I think it 's disgusting ! |
| 18 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 19 | Within the last ten years , I 've been ten years activ actively concerned with the old aged pensioners ' association and er the Labour movement . |
| 20 | I 've had more fun since I 've been forty , sexually than what I have all fucking . |
| 21 | And it 's certainly been marvellous to come and listen to it , as I have been one of your loyal supporters over many years . |
| 22 | I have been two hundred miles south of Moscow . |
| 23 | Faldo , interviewed in Golf World magazine , blasted : ‘ I have been 16 years on tour and I can honestly think of only two times I have seen Peter Alliss on a practice ground watching me or anybody hit balls . |
| 24 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 25 | I have been twenty-nine years in camps now . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I have been 30 hours and more with him this year so far , and I have never seen him take a drink . |