Example sentences of "i had been " in BNC.

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1 Although I had been informed that the present French artists were low in merit , I did not expect to find them , with little exception , so totally devoid of it .
2 Before going to RADA I had been encouraged at my school in school plays , which included Oh , What a Lovely War .
3 It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was .
4 When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen .
5 I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written .
6 I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon .
7 But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started .
8 I had been humiliated in front of my public .
9 Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate .
10 Then , inexplicably , I had been out of work for over a year and my few friends were drifting away .
11 I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime .
12 It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something .
13 The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way .
14 We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) .
15 I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications .
16 This cost-effective nature of a scholarship was a matter I had been asked to justify when I first asked my new assistant chief constable about the potential of postgraduate research as an ‘ observing participator ’ .
17 In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me .
18 In 1966 I moved from the world of ‘ real polising ’ into areas of operational marginality which were further to confound the preference for the clearly delineated police world I had been brought up in .
19 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 .
20 Two weeks after my course finished and I was back in the ‘ real world ’ on a murder enquiry , I received notification I had been awarded the second scholarship in the force .
21 ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already .
22 On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year .
23 It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying .
24 Or so I had been told .
25 I had been quite looking forward to sampling its unsavoury delights .
26 Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit .
27 With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side .
28 I had been promised a gripping afternoon 's shoot in the Locarno Gents ( where the original play was entirely set ) .
29 He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back .
30 ‘ If I had been able to run my own theatre , like Alan Ayckbourn or Neil Simon , I would definitely have directed all my plays myself .
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