Example sentences of "i had [been] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks .
2 I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be .
3 According to these ladies , I had been at certain times a pirate , a builder , a healer , a spiritual teacher , a red Indian and a nun .
4 I had been on low-calorie diets and diets out of newspapers , but I just could not stick to them .
5 Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight .
6 The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party .
7 She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands .
8 Having been confined to a wheelchair for 18 years I had been in similar situations to this .
9 ‘ He had every reason not to take me seriously as a soldier as he knew how idle I had been in prior days in Layforce . ’
10 I had been in constant pain , since my accident , for nearly two years when I stumbled across the Alexander Technique .
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