Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pron] had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I realized what had been so odd about it : amid all the festivities and celebrations there had been no sign whatsoever of the bride around whom the whole affair was revolving . |
| 2 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 3 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 8 | He brushed the question aside and I realised it had been silly of me to ask it . |
| 9 | She had been tortured with electric shocks — as had every teenager I met who had been detained during the township unrest . |
| 10 | As I passed what had been the marshalling yard and sidings , I glanced at the rows of rusting buffer stops and rotting wooden buffer beams , and conjured up a picture of its lines of laden coal wagons waiting to be despatched and the coal empties waiting to be taken to the collieries to be filled . |
| 11 | ‘ I found it had been cheaply dry-cleaned. he had obviously lent it to her . ’ |
| 12 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 13 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 14 | I assumed it had been replaced , but in the circumstances … ’ |
| 15 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 16 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 17 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 18 | And then on the left hand side the old houses continue and the female I interviewed er I reckoned there had been a house there that had been knocked down , and they built a wee bungalow . |
| 19 | ‘ I had never been interviewed before but felt really at ease , mainly because I discovered I had been an informal link worker all my life ! |
| 20 | Not entirely to my surprise , I discovered there had been a frenzy of activity in my absence , and number four hundred and fifteen had come and gone . |
| 21 | And I stuck it in there and I , I figured it had been there now for what eighteen months and I think it was you who said oh give it another six months |
| 22 | I heard it had been said that it was discouraged but er |
| 23 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 24 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 25 | If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient , I always felt ashamed . |
| 26 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 27 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report . |
| 28 | ‘ Because you were so vulnerable , I felt it had been unfair of me to take advantage of you . ’ |
| 29 | I knew she had been the housekeeper there since Hindley 's death . |
| 30 | She was built like a javelin thrower , but she blushed and I knew I had been in good hands . |