Example sentences of "be [verb] [conj] i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My practical mastery had made me acutely aware of the boundaries which separate those inside the institution from those excluded from the specialist knowledge of ‘ doing the business ’ and I was more than ever aware of the suspicions which would have been aroused if I had introduced questions of an academic nature , or had distributed questionnaires . |
| 2 | I had the strong feeling of help having been given so I clasped my hands and said a prayer , half mentally , half vocally , of thanks to God . |
| 3 | An East and West Association had been formed and I took an early opportunity of asking if I might address it . |
| 4 | PS : Things are not too good at home — your Mother is well , but the house has been repossessed after I lost my job . |
| 5 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 6 | Er a a and with a family row in in it as well you can imagine the work involved was a bit more than initially might have been expected and I got criticized because the bill was bigger than I had first estimated cos I did n't expect there 'd be trouble from the father . |
| 7 | I 'd better bring you up to date on what 's been happening since I saw you . ’ |
| 8 | Unless I mean this hedgehog could have been done if I left it could n't it ? |
| 9 | ‘ By 1988 I was updating the book I had been writing when I met Diana . |
| 10 | In those days the final link in the Iceland circle road had not been made and I needed a plane , bound for Fagurhólsmýri , to reach the National park . |
| 11 | This mighty work has moved me as I have not been moved since I discovered the symphonies of Gustav Mahler some 35 years ago . |
| 12 | Many of the applicants who had looked suitable had been rejected and I deduced that I had been selected because I had not tried to glamorise my life history , and because I was medically and physically fit . |
| 13 | You 're suggesting that I damaged your car deliberately . |
| 14 | I ca n't see where we 're going because I did n't have my glasses on . |
| 15 | I said to her when , when he was finished I said it 's good enough cos you 're sure what you you 're doing but I said |
| 16 | I said , you 're joking and I said they sell the house to you |
| 17 | No , not now , our schedules are perfect with that they 're planning cos I spoke to the other day |
| 18 | I 've been wondering if I knew you . ’ |
| 19 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 20 | Sam was cleaning the same damn glass he had been cleaning when I came in . |
| 21 | It may have been noted that I placed sexual offences against children among cases which may have effect . |
| 22 | ‘ The fire had been lit before I came to the office . |
| 23 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 24 | I am praised because I held it by the tail . ’ |
| 25 | That 's what I 'd have been doing if I had been there so you 're not so different from me Peter , so you might have , you might be different in other ways John , but I 've got that weakness as well . |
| 26 | Barely six months earlier , however , another trap had been laid and I had fallen into it with a resounding thud . |
| 27 | Has she been recording cos I wanted |
| 28 | The cous cousins Margaret and Joan have been found and I told you we found Tony while we were still on with Malcolm who was looking for him . |
| 29 | Gazza reacted angrily as he explained : ‘ I 've just been told that English journalists are saying that I threw my bib down because Zoff said I was out of the side . |
| 30 | She 's been crying and I sent her home . |