Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 2 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 3 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 4 | I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging . |
| 5 | It was getting dark and the wind had freshened , the rain gusting through the length of the shed so I decided that it was time to pack up and head for the nearest hospitable pub where I had been told I would be able to get a good meal of hot pie and peas . |
| 6 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 7 | Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it . |
| 8 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 9 | So , of course , it was worth considerably more than I 'd been offered , and there were the most unpleasant suggestions flying around . |
| 10 | I had not realised that it was even more complicated than I had been led to believe originally . |
| 11 | M. A. Boscq , Ingenieur-General , Ministere de l'Agriculture Services Regionaux at Lempdes ensured that more information than I required was made available to me ; M.Jean Leblanc of his staff went to considerable lengths to both provide and help interpret various policy papers and reams of data . |
| 12 | Murder was habit-forming , so I 'd been told . |
| 13 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 14 | Instinctively , I reacted as if I 'd been hit . |
| 15 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 16 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 17 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 18 | It would have worked too , if I 'd been supported . ’ |
| 19 | I would have thought how stupid it was if I 'd been made do it . |
| 20 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 21 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 22 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 23 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 24 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 25 | That was nice of Nevil , he 'd provided me with a cover story — I was supposed to look as if I 'd been mugged . |
| 26 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 28 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 29 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 30 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |