Example sentences of "i [vb past] i [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 2 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 3 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 4 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 5 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 6 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 7 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 9 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 10 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 11 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 12 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 13 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 14 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 16 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 17 | If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient , I always felt ashamed . |
| 18 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 19 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report . |
| 20 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 22 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 23 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |
| 24 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 25 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 26 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 27 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 28 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 30 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |