Example sentences of "[subord] i [verb] [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 2 | If I 'd been his wife I would n't have hesitated . |
| 3 | If I 'd been anything less than convincing , the audience would have picked up on it and I 'd have been furious with myself . |
| 4 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
| 5 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 6 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 7 | It 's not fair if I help is it Matthew ? |
| 8 | I do n't know how , I , I as I say I ca n't figure it out how they work it out though because I mean are they |
| 9 | I 've , I 've never ever known him to iron anything ever since I 've been you know , little , I 've never seen him iron anything but me mum was in fits because he 'd even ironed the socks so she said she did n't have the heart to tell him that she does n't usually bother with the ruddy socks , but er the thought was there was n't it ? |
| 10 | I was n't deceived , for Nour had been kind when I had been what he called ‘ good ’ , and I had thought that a new Nour had been born who was made for me , designed for all my needs and desires , and we would be unchangingly happy together until the end of time . |
| 11 | But what I found when I went was I had to go through the psychiatrist to find this group cos it was n't available . |
| 12 | I mean it stuck out like a sore thumb , I mean er by King George 's playing fields erm cos of the , they had n't the , th the , the s other story for that was as I said was we they sent er some of us to a class in Walsall for er aircraft recognition and er the days I went to this class , cos I went as er , er both for the factory and for the Home Guard , so that I could cover both the factory and when I were on duty , Home Guard and we was at a building on the corner of Corporation Street and west , and we was taking classes in there . |