Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 2 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 3 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 4 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 6 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
| 7 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 8 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 9 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 11 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 12 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 13 | Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted |
| 14 | Over the months Jay found she liked being around Lucy , enjoyed desiring her and doing nothing about it . |
| 15 | We interviewed Pascoe again today and he mentioned you had been to see him . |
| 16 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 18 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 19 | how well they recalled the review activities , how involved they had been and how far outsiders to the school had been involved ; |
| 20 | At Ealing Broadway they found they had been . |
| 21 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 22 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 24 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 25 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 26 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 27 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 28 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 29 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 30 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |