Example sentences of "[noun sg] i had [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 2 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 3 | This was the first time I had been to the house and it seemed enormous . |
| 4 | Last time I had been to Paris they had rescued me from the freezing streets and hungry wolf packs . ) |
| 5 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 6 | I knew that when at last I was demobilised from the Waaf I would have to return to my peacetime occupation as a secretary in London , for the simple reason that my employers had been paying me my full salary all the time I had been in the Forces , that is , making up the difference between my Waaf pay and what I would have been earning with them . |