Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sparked immediate criticism that the MMC regulations requiring Bass to free pubs from the tie or sell them had been by-passed . |
| 2 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 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 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 5 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 6 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already . |
| 8 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 9 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 10 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 13 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 18 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 19 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 20 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 21 | But , having heard I had been invited , Robin persuaded me to accept , saying he was going to meet a trainer friend there who would know all the winners . |
| 22 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 23 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 24 | Early Medieval peoples were not , as the Empires which had preceded them had been , living in slave states ( though one people might be in subjugation to another ) . |
| 25 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 26 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 27 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 28 | If they did n't leave the shed door properly shut , Mrs Wright would know someone had been in . |
| 29 | ‘ How did you know someone had been strangling me if everyone else in there was willing to believe I 'd had a fit ? ’ |
| 30 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |