Example sentences of "[vb past] i have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 9 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 10 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 11 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 12 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 13 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 14 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 15 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 16 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 17 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 18 | In the absence of anyone more nearly related I had been designated next-of-kin , and now I wrote to the Court of Protection who had been dealing with her affairs , asking what my responsibilities would be if she died . |
| 19 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 20 | And yes , he knew I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 21 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 22 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 23 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 24 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 25 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 26 | For a moment I thought I had been mistaken , and that perhaps I had left the switch on after the light failed , but no , I was sure I had switched off . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 28 | My family thought I had been studying too hard . |
| 29 | She was n't too pleased , as she thought I had been coarsened by the whole experience , which was true . |
| 30 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |