Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 2 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 3 | I had even been accused , in a jocular way , by one of my senior officers , of operating a blockade of the Channel . |
| 4 | ‘ Sometimes I wish I had n't been born a Catholic , Joe . |
| 5 | He is , he said my mother said she could have been a forensic scientist if it ha if I had n't been born ! |
| 6 | Then it was ‘ If I had n't been dragged to this godforsaken town by that damned no-hoper that I married … ’ and so on . |
| 7 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 8 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 9 | If I had n't been elected , I doubt if I would every have had to request to ‘ Take some gentle exercise with Jerry Hall ’ . |
| 10 | The Scot said : ‘ I was one punch away from knocking him out in the fifth and if I had n't been injured , I would have finished him . ’ |
| 11 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 12 | Perhaps I had n't been shot . |
| 13 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 14 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 15 | As I had n't been invited to that , I had to conclude that I was there to work , wearing my professional hat . |
| 16 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 17 | The standard security measure would have been second nature to me , on leaving any planet , if I had n't been burdened with so may excitements and anxieties . |
| 18 | I had n't been gone more than a minute . |
| 19 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 20 | She in turn asked why I had n't been to visit her . |
| 21 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 22 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ A party and I had n't been asked … had n't been asked . ’ |
| 24 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 25 | If I had n't been diagnosed quite early , I would n't be here . |
| 26 | I actually went back upstairs and because , I mean although , I mean I was dancing and it was a late night , I had n't been drinking so , you know , although I was , I was tired , you know I had n't been drinking and erm so I actually felt erm wide awake |
| 27 | I actually went back upstairs and because , I mean although , I mean I was dancing and it was a late night , I had n't been drinking so , you know , although I was , I was tired , you know I had n't been drinking and erm so I actually felt erm wide awake |
| 28 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 29 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 30 | I had n't been expecting him quite so soon . |