Example sentences of "that i [vb mod] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
2 | I was duly slapped down by my more knowledgeable tectonic seniors , and tried to forget the brief publication in question , but later work has now led me to suspect that I might have been right after all . |
3 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
4 | ‘ Not that I would have been able to do much anyway , that thing 's a death trap ! |
5 | ‘ You might think that I would have been happy to go on improving my golf handicap , ’ he said . |
6 | As I can remember very little about the rest of the day I presume that I must have been unconscious most of the time . |
7 | By four o'clock , I knew from the morning 's reckoning that I should have been able to see the Land Rover . |