Example sentences of "[conj] i had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 2 | Between Belturbet and Cavan Town ( where I had been before ) , Lough Erne fragmented into a series of lakes , with strange names such as Lough Parisee . |
| 3 | Although I had been under no real illusions that an amazing secret would suddenly be revealed , I was nevertheless disappointed that my theories had proved to be groundless . |
| 4 | I was 19-years-old and , although I had been in action bombarding the Normandy coast and seen ships lost , the thought of this new venture alarmed me . |
| 5 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 6 | Often they say , ‘ I thought that I had been through all this and settled it in my mind ten years ago , yet here I am having to come to terms with the same issue all over again . ’ |
| 7 | This school looked so much bigger than the other two primary schools that I had been to . |
| 8 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 9 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 10 | I wished again that I had been at B.P. with Angela and Anne and Wendy and my other ‘ comrades ’ . |
| 11 | As it turned out , Mother was still delighted to remind all her friends that I had been among the first women from the East End to sign the register . |
| 12 | I said that I had been in the British Army which prompted another Englishman called Chris to ask if I had known anybody in the Royal Signals in Aldershot or Catterick . |
| 13 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 14 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 15 | In Asia , I became far more aware than I had been in London of the very rich tradition of songs , stories and games . |
| 16 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 17 | Carson Buchanan , Alf Jacobson and I had been in charge of the arrangements and a liberal supply of liquid refreshment was on hand to demonstrate our hospitality as ‘ The Friendly City ’ . |
| 18 | as if to underline how huge the task of changing public opinion would be , and of making people see that the hostages mattered , it had been spelled out in a television programme I had taken part in the previous November when Mary and I had been in Paris . |
| 19 | If I had been of the view , which I am not , that it was open to the rule making authority , whether by accident or design , in any way to remove powers which the Act has given to the court , I should still have been of opinion that the judge had the powers which he clearly wished to have . |
| 20 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 21 | I probably would not have done as well if I had been at work . |
| 22 | If I had been at my gun , I would have been dissected . |
| 23 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 24 | But he said : ‘ Even if I had been in Austria longer , I would still be able to defend myself against the outrageous charges of behaving like a war criminal — a charge made against no one else . ’ |
| 25 | It was not until I had been in the camp some days that I learnt the full story of the past . |
| 26 | Indeed , because I had been with giants for so long , I had forgotten that my countrymen were as small as me . |
| 27 | Then I began to go to the temple and I did n't go to Sunday school any more , because I had been to the seaside lots and lots of times — the same one every time . |
| 28 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 29 | Since I had been at the university we had seen far less of each other . |
| 30 | The morning after I had been to this party at the Spanish Embassy , I received an invitation from the Spanish Ambassador and Señora Puig de la Bellacasa to go to their Farewell Party . |