Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] i had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 2 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 3 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 4 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 6 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 7 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 8 | To my sorrow I missed out personally on this one as I had been " grounded " at that period for various reasons . |
| 9 | When I was in Rapeman , I ca n't say it really surprised me because I had been exposed to English people before , but I did n't think that people were being serious initially . |
| 10 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 13 | The way he wrote it , I guessed he was as sure as anyone that I had been the trigger man . |
| 14 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 15 | Indeed , the paralysis he had suffered as a result of her suicide had given way to an energetic creative vitality since he and I had been together . |
| 16 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |
| 17 | And before meeting him , I wandered about the Left Bank reminding myself that I had been prescribed the city of love to feast my senses . |
| 18 | Lorry driver Bill , 51 , of Merthyr Tydfil , South Wales , said yesterday : ‘ I was in so much pain I could n't dress myself after I had been examined and needed a wheelchair . ’ |