Example sentences of "i [vb past] [be] taught " in BNC.

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1 ‘ They were what stayed alive , when I 'd been taught and examined everything else . ’
2 I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught .
3 Since childhood , I 'd been taught to keep everything to myself — problems , opinions , feelings .
4 It was also clearly evident , in the groups that I saw being taught , as well as from my own personal experience , that the GCSE has improved children 's motivation .
5 In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me .
6 Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies .
7 I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre .
8 I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way .
9 I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school .
10 This was against all that was implicit in the way I had been taught — people increased in wisdom as they grew older , so that they were able to guide the young in the paths they should follow .
11 I was thinking , in contravention of everything I had been taught , that this casual immorality would be more wholesome than the hidden hatreds of marital strife .
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