Example sentences of "i had [be] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 3 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 4 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 7 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 8 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 9 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 10 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 11 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 12 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |
| 13 | I had been haggling like a nomad , while they , dressed like English salesmen , were ready to pay without question . |
| 14 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 15 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 16 | I had been trying for a year to obtain some black Amazon wood for my Discus tank , but my local dealers did not stock it . |
| 17 | I had hinted to him that I had been engaged on a paper to be called ‘ Enslavement by Capital ’ , a title adapted from one employed by Ezra Pound in a Criterion article called more characteristically , ‘ Murder by Capital ’ . |
| 18 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 19 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 20 | I had been enrolled as a student at Canterbury before I went to Cambridge ; during the next four years I was visited by missionaries home on leave from Burma , though nothing definite was said . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 23 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 24 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 25 | I even told them I had been recommended for a commission . |
| 26 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ If I had been married to a successful man , ’ said Lili , ‘ I should never have discovered myself , or my potential . ’ |
| 28 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
| 29 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 30 | I had bought a pair of trousers and a T-shirt when I had been shopping with a friend . |