Example sentences of "[adj] i [vb past] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 2 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 3 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 4 | First of all I had been subjected to two substantial costs consequent upon some unexplained administrative delay . |
| 5 | At the beginning of 1981 I had been promoted from Minister of Transport to Secretary of State . |
| 6 | Oh I 'm really pleased about that , cos last time on a , I was really disappointed I 'd been refused the course cos I thought oh , it 'll be right up my street that , cos when I was teaching full time I was quite into these er computers at the beginning and the one that went |
| 7 | ‘ Somehow or other I had been placed near the King . |
| 8 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |