Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 2 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 3 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 4 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 5 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 6 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 7 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 8 | Visiting her had become part of my life but I knew it would not always be so ; twice I had been summoned to the hospital when she had seemed to be failing . |
| 9 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 10 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 11 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 12 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 13 | I had been invited to 10 Downing Street for dinner a number of times and on one of those occasions Harold Wilson asked me if I could suggest someone who would go to Salisbury and meet Ian Smith in order to find out whether there was any basis for renewing negotiations . |
| 14 | ‘ I had been invited to Miss Havisham 's to see if she liked me . |
| 15 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 16 | Lena Pye , Uplands , Etherley Lane , Bishop Auckland : I had been invited to the public gallery at Durham Assizes ( crown court ) by Supt Vickers to watch part of the trial of Mr Louis Bloom , a Sunderland solicitor . |
| 17 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 18 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 21 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |
| 22 | I had been warned on the ground to expect the phenomenon ; after a couple more practice stalls , and later in the circuit , I almost got used to it . |
| 23 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 24 | I had been heartened by their performance , but Pat really thought that , in its basic approach , the Government was right . |
| 25 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 26 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 27 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 28 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 29 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 30 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |