Example sentences of "i had been teach " in BNC.

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1 When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years .
2 In my own case I had been taught by Okely to avoid the split between subjectivism and an objective reality , but I had no preparation to contend with the changes which the field experience created in me .
3 Foolishly , I had not bothered to carry out any of the psychic protective techniques I had been taught as a ‘ probationer healer ’ at a school of esoteric studies .
4 I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre .
5 I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way .
6 I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school .
7 This was against all that was implicit in the way I had been taught — people increased in wisdom as they grew older , so that they were able to guide the young in the paths they should follow .
8 I was thinking , in contravention of everything I had been taught , that this casual immorality would be more wholesome than the hidden hatreds of marital strife .
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