Example sentences of "i had [adv] be [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been gone more than a minute . |
| 2 | If I had n't been diagnosed quite early , I would n't be here . |
| 3 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 4 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 5 | I had often been called there to be punished . |