Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
| 2 | Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all . |
| 3 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 4 | I had been complaining that one day I must become a good daughter again and go back home for a visit . |
| 5 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 6 | I am referring to Dr. Bach Flower Remedies , a mixed distillation of which I had been prescribed and acquired at Bristol . |
| 7 | ‘ By 1988 I was updating the book I had been writing when I met Diana . |
| 8 | Not that dissimilar from the other meter considering I had been swapping and mixing the two tank 's water . |
| 9 | I had been lost because I loved him . |
| 10 | Here , in Danu , I had a meaning ; it was where I had been born and lived . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 13 | Two years before I had been diagnosed as suffering from ALS , commonly known as Lou Gehrig 's disease , or motor neuron disease , and given to understand that I had only one or two more years to live . |
| 14 | For years , I had been reading and re-reading his novels , ever since I had come across Prester John at my prep school . |
| 15 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 16 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 17 | What I had been fighting for for all these years — the right for gay people to live their lives openly with dignity and respect — was actually happening , and in the most unlikely of places . |
| 18 | ‘ I had been wondering whether you 'd change your mind and live here permanently . ’ |
| 19 | I had been wondering if she was well and there she was , bouncing with energy , shining-eyed , rosy-cheeked and beautiful . |
| 20 | I had been told that the new drug had side-effects . |
| 21 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 22 | I had been told that the Asaimara inhabited Bahdu and Aussa while the Adoimara occupied the rest of the country . |
| 23 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 24 | I was not very worried as I had been told that the school was very good . |
| 25 | I had been told that er he 'd made threats against his wife and er his wife was living with somebody else at that time and he 'd made threats against him . |
| 26 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |
| 27 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 28 | Most of the things I had were dated and not worth very much , so I found myself selling off my past as jumble and bric-a-brac . |
| 29 | Worse one I had was to go and get some elbow grease . |
| 30 | The shelling had stopped now and it was certain that someone had been killed or wounded , maybe the chap in the next slit trench a few feet away . |