Example sentences of "you had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was about five-feet tall , but he had an enormous ability to make you feel that you had been given a real challenge and it seemed all-important to discharge it to his satisfaction and he was equally praising of your achievement . |
| 2 | It 's as if you had been given not one vote , but a fifth of a vote . |
| 3 | Erm I had rather thought that that you had been given erm sufficient information already to perhaps make a straightforward simple strategic choice between between districts . |
| 4 | Yes , I see , yes er , I said , I could have said if you had been given a hundred thousand pounds how , or fifty thousand pounds how would you invest it ? |
| 5 | Romano 's tone was coolly implacable , ‘ If you had been wearing a safety-line , there would have been no accident , ’ he added evenly , goading her temper even further . |
| 6 | ‘ But you were telling me you had been warned , the night of our God-given victory . ’ |
| 7 | You would not have reached your present stage if you had been lacking in ability . |
| 8 | If however , you had been mistaken about the location of and and the assignments had been reversed , the effective starting-points would be and and the movement towards equality would involve a loss to and a gain to of , yielding a net gain of 83-10-9 as by construction . |
| 9 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 10 | ‘ After you had been presented to our gracious Queen , last summer , you followed custom by having your photograph taken in all your finery . ’ |
| 11 | Having warmed to it , Flavia went on , ‘ And then you are so essentially neat , no , neat is too prosaic , you are so … styled , you look as though you had been made . ’ |
| 12 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 13 | no , no , something you had been wanting to do , not we , you had been wanting |
| 14 | no , no , something you had been wanting to do , not we , you had been wanting |
| 15 | ‘ And therefore you had been conceived behind the closed gates of that dreadful other Ireland . |
| 16 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 17 | Once you had been visited by the sergeant , you 'd go for a scrounge , somewhere you could get a smoke — a bakery where there was a bit of heat in the winter-time . |
| 18 | I will I would say that if you had been speaking to me on the phone , and this is not a criticism of John it 's just a an observation , you would n't be here . |
| 19 | We interviewed Pascoe again today and he mentioned you had been to see him . |
| 20 | What 's more — ’ he turned to glare at Sophie ‘ — you did n't inform me that you had been called in . |
| 21 | ‘ It is also possible that an assignment you accept turns out to be different from what you had been led to believe . |
| 22 | This counts as if you had been earning exactly the amount of the LEL . |
| 23 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 24 | But do you somehow wish that you had been reunited with Richard Burton ? |
| 25 | Wherever you were stationed postings tended to come out of the blue , and you would quite often arrive back from leave to find that in your absence you had been posted elsewhere . |
| 26 | They might also reveal that you have been in some distant shopping mall far from your usual stomping ground on a day on which you had sworn ( at least to the office ) that you had been laid up with flu . |
| 27 | You had been swilling food into your guts and making the small talk of camp survival , and you had lost him from your memory … |
| 28 | After all , if you had been hanged , drawn and quartered at a time when such deaths were not uncommon , you would not really want to feel either the physical pain or indeed the terror which must have accompanied it ! |
| 29 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 30 | Rosa told me you had been enthralled with the baby , how adorable you thought she was . |