Example sentences of "i had be [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 5 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |