Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] i [vb past] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 2 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 3 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 4 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 5 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 6 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 7 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 8 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 9 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 10 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 11 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 12 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 13 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 14 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 15 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 16 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 17 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |
| 18 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 19 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 21 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 22 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 23 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 25 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 26 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 27 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 28 | I said I had been knocked out by a shell-blast . |
| 29 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 30 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |