Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 2 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 3 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 5 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 6 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 7 | And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |
| 9 | the first piece of Bhimji 's work I saw was at her degree show at Goldsmiths ' College in 1987 . |
| 10 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 11 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 12 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 13 | I had been to my flat and there was nothing there — it had been totally cleared out . |
| 14 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 15 | As I remember it was one morning a little while after my father and Miss Kenton had joined the staff , I had been in my pantry , sitting at the table going through my paperwork , when I heard a knock on my door . |
| 16 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 17 | First good watch I had was for my twenty first , I 've still got , it still goes |
| 18 | The exhibition could be read on many levels , but the immediate impression I had was of its strong Americanism . |
| 19 | The news broadcast had moved on to other matters now ; the loss of contact between Earth Central and a Space Fleet flotilla which had been on its way to intercept a supposed alien fleet near Epsilon Eridani . |
| 20 | Back at the Olympik , I looked up a passage in Pascal which had been in my mind earlier in the evening : |
| 21 | Anyway , ’ his gaze shifted slightly and his tone grew harder , as if he regretted the revelation , ‘ he was forced out of business and lost the boatyard which had been in his family for four generations . ’ |
| 22 | Mrs Allen rarely spoke to any of the hospital staff ; any information she got was via her stepson . |
| 23 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
| 24 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 25 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 26 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 27 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 28 | She 'd been in his company for less than a minute , and already they were sparring . |
| 29 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 30 | One of the men sounded furious , the other frightened — the one who 'd been in their car . |