Example sentences of "i [vb past] be [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 2 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 3 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 4 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 5 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 6 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 7 | I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them . |
| 8 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 9 | Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this . |
| 10 | ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’ |