Example sentences of "[coord] i had [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mate and I had been given a long list of names , of Bulawayo people we should meet . |
| 2 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 3 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 4 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 5 | Fielding and I had been buzzed in , cased , X-rayed and heavy-petted by two security guards in plum blazers . |
| 6 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 7 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 8 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 9 | My mother-in-law helped to run one of the early family planning clinics , and I had been despatched to an appointment with the other doctor ! ) |
| 10 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 11 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 12 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 13 | Boot and I had been allocated the less spectacular task of making and using miniature Barkausen-Kurz tubes as possible receivers . |
| 14 | Both Frank and I had been telephoned , informed of remarks supposedly made by the other , and asked for our comments . |
| 15 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 16 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 17 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 18 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 19 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 20 | At Bilen I had often asked what happened to the Awash , curious to find out why this large river never reached the sea , and I had been told that it ended in a great lake at the foot of a mighty mountain called Goumarri in Aussa , where apparently there were many lakes , great forests and some cultivation . |
| 21 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 22 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 23 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 24 | Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all . |
| 25 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 26 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 27 | But I had been caught , well and truly , and had paid the price , time and time again . |