Example sentences of "i had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 4 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 5 | It seems , on looking back , one day I was outside and then the next day I was in , as if I 'd had nothing to do with it : I had been pushed or drawn or whatever you like . |
| 6 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 7 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 8 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 9 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 10 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 11 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 12 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 13 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 14 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 15 | North British duly obliged with the Birmingham-Glasgow on the Saturday , but dawn till dusk vigils did not produce the procession of A1 's , A2 's , A3 's and A4 's I had been hoping to see . |
| 16 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 17 | But , having heard I had been invited , Robin persuaded me to accept , saying he was going to meet a trainer friend there who would know all the winners . |
| 18 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 19 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 20 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 21 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 22 | ‘ I had been invited to Miss Havisham 's to see if she liked me . |
| 23 | I explained that I had come to visit Blefuscu , as I had been invited . |
| 24 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 25 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 26 | Naturally I had been invited . |
| 27 | Lena Pye , Uplands , Etherley Lane , Bishop Auckland : I had been invited to the public gallery at Durham Assizes ( crown court ) by Supt Vickers to watch part of the trial of Mr Louis Bloom , a Sunderland solicitor . |
| 28 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 29 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 30 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |