Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I suppose I had been given a sense of the evil of cinema by my strict Methodist grandparents , who were visibly shocked when once I confessed that I had been to see a film on Sunday . |
| 32 | I had been to see it years before in a taxi from Roscrea , and had been greatly impressed by the poignant air of haunted melancholy that hung over the ruins . |
| 33 | ‘ I had been to see him the previous day , and arranged that he come and teach me Dutch . |
| 34 | then I had another I had another wee problem that I 'd been , I had been to see , and it was Doctor I had been , and the doctor that I saw the last time er I had three big bruises on my back , and she |
| 35 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 36 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 37 | I relaxed those muscles I had been clenching . |
| 38 | I was tempted to stop struggling against him , as I had been tempted before , in a different way , by Mr Rochester . |
| 39 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |
| 42 | But , as I had been warned , there were no cars . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | I had been warned of this , and was therefore able to take the extra engagements in my stride , and to enjoy the opportunity to visit varying institutions and talk to people of all positions on the academic scene . |
| 45 | Not only have I never been mobbed at Sainsbury 's but I had been assured that the likes of Sheridan Morley and Julia Mackenzie would be giving their all . |
| 46 | I was staggered to realise I had been honoured and to this day I do n't know who put me forward . ’ |
| 47 | I had been heartened by their performance , but Pat really thought that , in its basic approach , the Government was right . |
| 48 | I had been wept on by so many boyfriends that , had Home Sister known , she would have warned me of the dangers of pneumonia every time I went out on a date . |
| 49 | Some of them turned out to be not as indifferent to my plight as I 'd feared they all would be , and a few murmured that if I did really feel strongly about the way I had been treated , I should indeed take the matter up with the Senate . |
| 50 | And I remember running into the ward where I had been treated , finding one of the nurses who had looked after me and giving her a big hug and her crying . |
| 51 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 52 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 53 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 54 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 55 | ‘ I genuinely wish I had been killed off , ’ says the Huyton-born star . |
| 56 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 57 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 58 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 59 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 60 | With the overall dimensions I had been given , it worked out easily that there could be three arches along the front to one at the side . |