Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I go , I go to some meetings , yeah and I asked who 's been burgled and all the hands shoot up . |
| 2 | Now I realized what had been so odd about it : amid all the festivities and celebrations there had been no sign whatsoever of the bride around whom the whole affair was revolving . |
| 3 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 4 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 5 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 8 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 9 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 14 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 15 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
| 16 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 17 | ‘ I found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned. he had obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 19 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 20 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 21 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 22 | I assumed it had been replaced , but in the circumstances … ’ |
| 23 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 24 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 25 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 26 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 27 | I imagined she 'd been knifed , violated . |
| 28 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 29 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 30 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |