Example sentences of "i had be [vb pp] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 2 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 3 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 4 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 5 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 6 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 7 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 8 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 9 | I said I had been knocked out by a shell-blast . |
| 10 | I had been brought up to be a hero . |
| 11 | I had been brought up as a Congregationalist . |
| 12 | In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in . |
| 13 | Emma had mounted the first step of the stairs and she was unwinding her scarf when she turned and looked down on her mother , saying , ‘ I would have been many things if I had been brought up in peace . ’ |
| 14 | I had been brought close to another sort of despair by my inability to draw blood : a cat with no claws and ineffectual teeth . |
| 15 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 16 | A master might also hit you with a pencil box on the buttocks , if you had n't learnt your " verbs " and I was once shaken so violently for crossing out a word in my exercise book when I had been told not to , that I nearly fell down with giddiness . |
| 17 | I had been taken out to lunch by Wakefield 's grandparents one Sunday . |
| 18 | I had been taken aback by the extent of his feelings . |
| 19 | In vain she had remonstrated with the powers that be that she had to be on the air in the Docklands by six , and when she finally pitched up , I had been put back on the phones for another session of ‘ And your address is — can you spell that please ? ’ |
| 20 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 21 | Any courage I had was knocked out of me when I was young . |