Example sentences of "that i had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 2 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 3 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 4 | Beth Stubbs was a Quaker , a member of that old Mafia that I had been so wary of . |
| 5 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 6 | I felt that I had been very clumsy . |