Example sentences of "[pron] had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 2 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 3 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 4 | I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it . |
| 5 | Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless . |
| 6 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had been an eye-opener to me in 1987 when I realized how naïve I had been about the press , discovered how they believe they have some God-given right to intrude on the privacy of well-known individuals in the name of journalism . |
| 9 | I had been into Zambia , but not very often |
| 10 | I had been along this track many times , and this was the first occasion on which I hesitated to pass the rocks . |
| 11 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 12 | I had been at St Andrew 's House barely a week , when a telegram arrived at my parents ' home : |
| 13 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Even if I had n't won a medal nor got enough promotion , I had been at the sharp end . |
| 16 | As far as I was concerned , when I had been at Bourn a month I felt I had lived there for years . |
| 17 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 18 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 19 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 20 | ‘ After I had been at the Bedford Institution for a few years there were changes for the better . |
| 21 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 22 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 23 | I had been at great pains to appear distant towards him and been more successful than I had thought I could be . |
| 24 | Happily I had been at school with this fellow and was able to contact him on my next leave , and to persuade him that it would be a pity to spoil his good name by killing me . |
| 25 | The next morning , when I had been on the move for half an hour , I came across a shack to the left of the road , looking like two different sized cartons glued together side by side . |
| 26 | I was seated next to Professor St John Goth , as I had been on the previous night ; Dominic and Lee were opposite , and Mr and Mrs Maclean from Stirling were on my right . |
| 27 | It was the first time we had managed to get eight aircraft into the air in one formation in the nearly two months I had been on the island . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 30 | As I had been on the medical side since he came back , this was the first time he had spoken to me , or probably seen me . |