Example sentences of "[vb past] i [pron] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 2 | The way you looked at him and how he was continually glancing at you told me it had been love at first sight . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He told me it had been overlooked , I 'm sure he did ! ’ |
| 4 | She told us : ‘ The first time I saw this lady from the Foundation for Global Unity in Canterbury , she told me I had been a young boy in one of the Balkan countries , where slaves were being used to cut down all the trees . |
| 5 | Rosa told me you had been enthralled with the baby , how adorable you thought she was . |
| 6 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 7 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 8 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 9 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 10 | He told me he had been a sailor , had known the bitter odour of disease and been a casualty in the wars of the elements , but nothing had been as dire as the loss of his woman to another . |
| 11 | As it turned out she was Royston Marley 's girlfriend , who told me he had been taken away by the police and was being deported . |
| 12 | ‘ He told me he had been very upset that day . |
| 13 | He told me he had been in Austria and he mentioned how ‘ handsome ’ he had found the people . |
| 14 | Silas told me he had been taking you round the sheep . ’ |
| 15 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 16 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 17 | Dana told me she had been a tougher nut for Daine to crack , and had had her mind scrambled and unscrambled several times . |
| 18 | She told me she had been a ghost for nearly twenty years . |
| 19 | ‘ Why , Taggy told me she had been obliged to deny entrance both to Tiverton and to Finchingfield . ’ |
| 20 | The forensic odontologist told me there had been a deliberate attempt to make the teeth match . ’ |
| 21 | Later on , my nursing studies taught me it had been a form of bubonic plague . |
| 22 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |