Example sentences of "[noun] that i had [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum . |
| 2 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 3 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 4 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 5 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 6 | Afterwards I had no sense that I had been forgiven , but I had done what I was called upon to do and there it must rest . |
| 7 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 9 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 10 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 11 | It was the first time that I had been picked to run in an individual event against the USA , and I was looking forward to it . |
| 12 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 13 | My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors . |