Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 3 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 4 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 6 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 8 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 9 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 11 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 12 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 13 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 14 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 15 | I experienced a moment of complete terror in which my mind raced — I had been discovered after all ; it was obvious that I had a limp ; everyone could see it ; they 'd seen it all along and had chosen this moment to hit me with it , my weakest moment … |
| 16 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 17 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 18 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 19 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 20 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 21 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 22 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 23 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 24 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 25 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 26 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 27 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 28 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 29 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 30 | She 'd been married in that hat . |