Example sentences of "i [vb past] [been] [verb] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 2 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been shopping in Smiths and I thought I recognised him . |
| 5 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 6 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 7 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 8 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 9 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 10 | I had been born in India , which was troublesome . |
| 11 | IN EXTRACTS from my forthcoming book , A Cuckoo in the Bodyline Nest , published in the May and June issues of WCM , I wrote that I had been born in Marathon Avenue , Darling Point , Sydney , next door to Gubby Allen . |
| 12 | I had been trained in Mespot in the art of aerial survey by the Royal Engineers , which I felt was of no practical use to my squadron , thus I became the squadron photographic officer ( small p and small o ) . |
| 13 | I had been reading in Shelvocke 's Voyages , a day or two before , that , while doubling Cape Horn , they frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude , the largest sort of sea-fowl … |
| 14 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 15 | I had been humiliated in front of my public . |
| 16 | As far as the army was concerned , I had been told in October 1945 that effectively the matter was ended with the presumption of death . |
| 17 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |