Example sentences of "i [vb past] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 2 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 3 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 4 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 5 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 6 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 7 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 8 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 9 | I supposed I 'd been like that too , but I could n't remember . |
| 10 | How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him . |
| 11 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 12 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 13 | After I 'd been in three years , I got married . |
| 14 | They all put in their tenpenny 's worth about what they thought should be filmed , but nobody asked my opinion , and I 'd been in more films than the rest of the cast put together . |
| 15 | ‘ But he seemed genuinely interested , particularly when I told him I 'd been round one of the stations on a Come & See tour . |
| 16 | I hated being on social security and I tried everywhere for a job . |
| 17 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
| 18 | At least , all the other eighteen-year-olds I knew were like this , so I presumed it was normal . |
| 19 | Well , what I thought was with this one world week thing at least people that , who go might be more receptive to what we have to say to show and sell . |
| 20 | They get on fine , which I thought was against all the rules . |
| 21 | The figure that I gave was of those who are directly or indirectly affected by the opencast sector . |
| 22 | The piece I did is on one side , and on the other is a piece by The Kronos Quartet , called Different Trains . ’ |
| 23 | one I did was with Caledonian Paper at Irvine and the Finns or the Swedes whoever own |
| 24 | ‘ The first film I did was with these other guys who were a little camera shy , ’ recalls Rod , who has appeared in a number of Sara 's group sex films . |
| 25 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 26 | I had been up most of the night on surveillance and , dressed in ‘ raggies ’ in a seedy dockside pub outside my own police area , had posed as a ‘ driver ’ for a drug-dealer . |
| 27 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 28 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 29 | According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun . |
| 30 | I had been on one of these camps before so I thought that I knew what to expect . |