Example sentences of "[verb] i [vb past] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 2 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 4 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 5 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 6 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 7 | But , having heard I had been invited , Robin persuaded me to accept , saying he was going to meet a trainer friend there who would know all the winners . |
| 8 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 9 | My comrade who had talked and named me had been tortured very badly . ’ |
| 10 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 11 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 12 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 13 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 14 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 15 | I suppose I had been spoiled ; first by Mrs Hall , then by Helen . |
| 16 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 17 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 18 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 19 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 20 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 21 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 22 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 23 | And yes , he knew I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 24 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 25 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 26 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 27 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 28 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 29 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |