Example sentences of "i [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of the Pakistani mothers I asked were against sex education in school . |
| 2 | Animals always came first — every book I read was about them . ’ |
| 3 | Tagalog concepts are directly relevant to the present discussion because the Buid with whom I lived are in daily contact with Tagalog speaking immigrants from neighbouring islands . |
| 4 | And as for Leeds , the only boys I met were at teenage dances . |
| 5 | And all thanks I got was to be sacked at end of summer — though only for a few months , that is , 'cos of the revolution . |
| 6 | We were both professors at Imperial College in 1956–59 but the impression I got was of a professor somewhat on the Kissinger model — a status symbol for the college , but not an approachable colleague . |
| 7 | the only thing I got was of Stella |
| 8 | The last thing I expected was to be woken from unconsciousness by an air hostess with the face of an angel , gently patting on my shoulder and telling me that the plane had just landed in Miami . |
| 9 | If I were back at the A squared , I squared is minus one , so I 've got minus three squared , there 's two give me by I Equals minus thirty nine , now because those two complex numbers are the same are the same , so sixteen is E S squared minus three square , the imaginary grids are also the same , so minus thirty equals two , eight B. |
| 10 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 11 | The only other official site I used was in Isafjördur but in the first week of June , at minus five degrees , I had been alone . |
| 12 | I 'd been through the trauma of losing a house once before and I knew how demoralizing and degrading it is . |
| 13 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 14 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 15 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 16 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 17 | I 'd been over the pub at dinnertime . |
| 18 | And I 'd got them here and I thought well I do n't know what to do with them and I b b interested in I 'm interested in going back in time , I 'll go anywhere where I can see something and I 'd been over there and they 'd got some Home Guard stuff in a case , only a small show , and I asked them if they 'd like it and they said yes . |
| 19 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 20 | This was the first time I 'd been into a prison and a number of things struck me during the day . |
| 21 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 22 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 23 | All the doctors , psychiatrists and groups I 'd been to so far for help had made me feel worse than ever : could she be any different ? |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd been to a party at Cipriani 's in The Strand which went on all hours . |
| 25 | I 'd been to Rome before , of course , but Naples … well , it 's something altogether different . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'd been to thirteen convents but I had n't really been to school properly because I was working by the time I was thirteen . |
| 28 | He asked me if I 'd been to Eton , but seemed more or less satisfied when I told him I was educated at Cheltenham Ladies ’ College . |
| 29 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 30 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |