Example sentences of "[pron] had be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 2 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 3 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 4 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 6 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 7 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 8 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 9 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 10 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 11 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 12 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 13 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 14 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 15 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 16 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 17 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 18 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 19 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 20 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 21 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 22 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 23 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 24 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 25 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 26 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 27 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 28 | It was the part of Sabbo in Rope ; mind you , I had been offered two leading roles at other reps that could n't give me the vital Equity card — so Sabbo it was . |
| 29 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 30 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |