Example sentences of "[vb past] that i have been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors .
2 I decided this would be a good experimental site on which to try my new detector , and for the first hour of detecting felt that I had been right in my assumption that I had really cleaned this place out .
3 It was quite phenomenal and I felt that I had been privileged to run in such a race .
4 I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries .
5 So I said that I had been lucky in a draw for leave , and that now Montague was dead I was to rejoin my original battalion .
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