Example sentences of "i [vb past] be [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd told her I 'd been away filming in Scotland that night . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been so used to my , freedom . |
| 3 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 4 | I 'd been too diverted by the Unwins ' rejoicings . |
| 5 | What I saw was principally field upon field rolling off into the far distance . |
| 6 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 7 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 8 | ‘ Brush ’ was the operative word , for I had been almost swept into oblivion . |
| 9 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 10 | I had been quite spoilt by now and anyway I had had my fill of walking alongside modern day roads , so I took the bus to Lochranza . |
| 11 | It was quite a shock , and I thought how lucky I had been never to get into a violent argument with him while he was carrying the clubs . ’ |