Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pers pn] have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 2 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 3 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 4 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 5 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 6 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 7 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 8 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 9 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 10 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 11 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 12 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 13 | I assumed it had been replaced , but in the circumstances … ’ |
| 14 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 15 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 16 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 17 | I imagined she 'd been knifed , violated . |
| 18 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 19 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 20 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 21 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 22 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 23 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 24 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 25 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 26 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 27 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 28 | When I looked it was a pellet and that was when I knew I had been shot . |
| 29 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 30 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |