Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] i had [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized that I had been tricked , so I then turned to some American and French correspondents . |
| 2 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 3 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 4 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 5 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 6 | When I got there I discovered that I had been sent to the schizophrenic ward . |
| 7 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 8 | I thought that I had been set up . |
| 9 | It felt like I had been kicked in the chest by a mule ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | IN EXTRACTS from my forthcoming book , A Cuckoo in the Bodyline Nest , published in the May and June issues of WCM , I wrote that I had been born in Marathon Avenue , Darling Point , Sydney , next door to Gubby Allen . |