Example sentences of "[noun sg] i [vb past] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me . |
| 3 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 4 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 5 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 6 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 7 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 8 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 9 | I explained how it was that as a child I had been told I was an eidetiker but that it had meant nothing to me . |
| 10 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 11 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 12 | When I went to the first meeting I had been appointed to the job , I went to the first meeting and there in front of me were lots of people who were managing their own schools and they were organising how to spend money that they had been allocated . |
| 13 | Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force . |
| 14 | Before going to RADA I had been encouraged at my school in school plays , which included Oh , What a Lovely War . |
| 15 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 16 | In one week I had been transformed into the two personae that I had always sworn to avoid : the preacher and the missionary . |
| 17 | It was quite away from the area I 'd been brought up in , but I got to like it and make friends , and I got more independent . |
| 18 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 19 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 20 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 21 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 22 | I left him the fare I had been quoted , but he pursued me and stopped me entering my flat . |
| 23 | Because of the distance of my journey I had been given permission to come during the morning , and there were no other visitors . |
| 24 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 25 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 26 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |
| 27 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 28 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 29 | By mistake I had been put through not to the hospital but to a psychiatric ward . |
| 30 | At 6 o'clock I dialled the telephone number I 'd been given ‘ for emergencies only ’ . |