Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 2 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We interviewed Pascoe again today and he mentioned you had been to see him . |
| 9 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 10 | how well they recalled the review activities , how involved they had been and how far outsiders to the school had been involved ; |
| 11 | At Ealing Broadway they found they had been . |
| 12 | At the gateway to the dock a black sports saloon had passed across a junction , unnerving her , but she doubted it had been Rory 's . |
| 13 | Ibrahim rather doubted it had been there in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 15 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 16 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 17 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 18 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 19 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 20 | With Prime Minister 's Question Time at last over , those of us waiting to catch the Parkinson statement now found it had been further held up while one of the defence ministers made a laborious job of unwrapping the Ministry of Defence 's Christmas present for the navy — three new frigates . |
| 21 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 22 | ‘ I found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned. he had obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I got out a ball gown to lend to a neighbour and found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned , ’ she said . |
| 24 | We found it had been secured only by one-inch-long wood screws . |
| 25 | A man who momentarily left a computer game outside his house in Greenbank Road , Darlington , found it had been stolen when he returned . |
| 26 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 27 | They believed she had been murdered by the Grantley Ripper although as yet no body had turned up . |
| 28 | As for HMS United she had been on station at the rendezvous ; but as it is barely possible to see a 10,000 tonner at 400 yards on a rough night there is little chance of seeing the recognition signals from a canoe when these torch or RG beams are a mere four feet ( just over a metre ) at arm 's length above the waves . |
| 29 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 30 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |