Example sentences of "[pers pn] had be [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I had no idea whether these ladies were right or wrong , but the revelation of fragments of past lives helped me come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . |
| 2 | ‘ The revelation of these fragments of past lives helped me to come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . ’ |
| 3 | It felt like I had been kicked in the chest by a mule ’ . |
| 4 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 5 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
| 6 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 7 | She was also advised that she should continue to try to reduce weight and should not return to her work ( which involved standing all the time ) until she had been seen in the Outpatient Clinic in six weeks time . |
| 8 | The poor woman had died when she had been bombed in the blitz . |
| 9 | Emily felt as though she had been slapped in the face . |
| 10 | She felt as if she had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 11 | Those views she had been taught in the twenties while a young girl , that men do not love or respect , still less marry , women who have ‘ given themselves ’ to them , she had been obliged to revise . |
| 12 | The faculty denied having discriminated against her and said she had been treated in the same way as all others seeking membership of the bar . |
| 13 | Martha longed to show off her advancement in reading and writing , for which she had been noted in the valley , and was bewildered and humiliated when she could make no sense of the books she was given . |
| 14 | It was the fourth time in five years she had been injured in the line of duty . |
| 15 | She had been placed in the back for comfort , or so he said , but Jenna had not been fooled . |
| 16 | ‘ She had been shot in the head and there was blood all over the sheets . |
| 17 | She had been shot in the neck at point blank range . |
| 18 | COPREFA later retracted this statement , recognized she was a human rights worker and decided she had been caught in the cross-fire when she died . |
| 19 | She had been caught in the South of France at the outbreak of war . |
| 20 | It must mean that she had been mentioned in the will . |
| 21 | Feeling as though she had been punched in the stomach , she staggered into the drawing-room and sank on to the sofa . |
| 22 | She had been left in the room with the two youths and something had happened . |
| 23 | He told the jurors they should look for corroboration of the 18-year-old woman 's claim that she had been attacked in the officer 's marked police car . |
| 24 | She had been hurt in the past , but that was over now . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought we had been hit in the starboard wing ’ , said the pilot F/O M G Johnson , of Geelong , Victoria , Australia . |
| 26 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 28 | The conditions in which they had been kept in the notorious Tazmamert prison had been so appalling that they had had to be transferred to a hospital for medical treatment to make them fit for release . |
| 29 | Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington . |
| 30 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |