Example sentences of "[adv] i had [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps I had always been in love with him . |
| 2 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 3 | In his last memoirs , written in his second exile , he wrote that before 1953 , " I had been no more than a hereditary sovereign , but now I had truly been elected by the people . |
| 4 | Fortunately I had already been in touch with the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , whose representative I met by chance on their stand in an exhibition marquee during Environment Week . |
| 5 | Indeed , the furthest I had ever been in my pre-television life was a day trip to Loch Lomond on a bus . |
| 6 | The day wanes , and if your words are to be believed then I had best be back in the security of your Rorim before nightfall . ’ |
| 7 | The future depended on decisions I could not possibly predict , but at least I had now been offered a shadow of a lifeline , and that , for the moment , would have to do . |
| 8 | We had stopped there once or twice , but as yet I had never been inside . |