Example sentences of "i had [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before I knew where I was , I had been wagered a great deal of money that I could not do it , and shortly before midnight I was leaving the hallowed portals of Ronnie Scott 's Club . |
| 32 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ I had been advised to mark everything up by 20 per cent , ’ Alistair Sampson said , ‘ because the clients ’ decorators would come round afterwards asking for a cut . |
| 34 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 35 | I had been playing for about five minutes when there was a very loud explosion very close at hand . |
| 36 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 37 | I had been very lucky , so far . |
| 38 | I had been able to have a couple of hours ' sleep here and there since the landings and , most important , I was able to move around more or less as I wanted to . |
| 39 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 40 | The rucksack and the rifle I had been carrying since yesterday evening seemed like a ton weight . |
| 41 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 42 | I had been one of the twenty-eight ( twenty-six plus two tellers ) Conservative Members who voted on 29 July 1954 against the conclusion of the treaty with Egypt under which that evacuation took place . |
| 43 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 44 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 45 | Hardly had I uttered the word — or the phrase signifying it — than I felt within me the need to become what I had been accused of being … . |
| 46 | As chairman , I had been involved in its capital reconstruction and ultimate sale to Trafalgar House . |
| 47 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 48 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 49 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 50 | I had been greatly amused , although I think I should not have been . |
| 51 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 52 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 53 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 54 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |
| 55 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 56 | I had been planning to go to the Nurburgring for testing the day after the race , but I was told to return to the factory and stop the new car I was building . |
| 57 | Prior to the patrol I had been given a verbal briefing on the night 's events . |
| 58 | ‘ At my first coming into the world I had been ( implicitly ) warned never to trust a Papist , and at my first coming into the English Faculty ( explicitly ) never to trust a philologist . |
| 59 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 60 | There I had been present at the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of St Joseph 's College , Sasse , ( pronounced Sassay ) , where I used to teach . |