Example sentences of "i [verb] been [vb pp] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I had been warned on the ground to expect the phenomenon ; after a couple more practice stalls , and later in the circuit , I almost got used to it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | There was no one there ; I had been released on a false alarm . |