Example sentences of "[to-vb] that i [vb past] [be] " in BNC.

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1 Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea .
2 Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’
3 I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad .
4 Was this the point at which to say that I had been a professional actress for over thirty years and was well aware of the mechanics etc ?
5 When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up .
6 One seldom gets on well with one 's family if one has the impression that one is better than them , and I used to dream that I had been found , abandoned in mysterious circumstances .
7 When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village .
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