Example sentences of "i had been [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first I thought I had been pushed too wide . |
| 2 | I had been invited there by George Every , and he chose a time when Eliot would be coming up too . |
| 3 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 4 | I was tempted to stop struggling against him , as I had been tempted before , in a different way , by Mr Rochester . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ I genuinely wish I had been killed off , ’ says the Huyton-born star . |
| 7 | At breakfast , I had been given freshly home-made bread , and I felt at peace with the world . |
| 8 | I had been drinking before . |
| 9 | When I could move , I discovered that I had been cut nearly in half . |
| 10 | I had been reaching up to put packets and tins into one of the wall cupboards , but this startled me into turning . |
| 11 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 12 | Fielding and I had been buzzed in , cased , X-rayed and heavy-petted by two security guards in plum blazers . |
| 13 | Typical of the man , Ashe seemed more concerned about my welfare , hearing that I had been beaten up outside the stadium by a stick wielding Army officer , than his own . |
| 14 | For the first time since I had been shot down I was alone . |
| 15 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 16 | I had shown determination to come back then when I had been written off . |
| 17 | In Doncaster over Christmas , I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government . |
| 18 | I had been thinking quickly . |
| 19 | I entered into the spirit of the occasion by volunteering as one of about twenty stage guinea pigs , but within minutes I had been weeded out and sent back to my seat . |
| 20 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 21 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 22 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 23 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 24 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 25 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 26 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 27 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 28 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 29 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 30 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |