Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in the day , I had been close to despair . |
| 2 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 3 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 4 | As chairman , I had been involved in its capital reconstruction and ultimate sale to Trafalgar House . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 7 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 8 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 9 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 10 | So I had been right about that . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 13 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 14 | I had been upset by the news about George . |
| 15 | There I had been present at the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of St Joseph 's College , Sasse , ( pronounced Sassay ) , where I used to teach . |
| 16 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
| 17 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 18 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 19 | I had been successful as a boxer at Eton and in my first term at Oxford I was selected to box against the Army . |
| 20 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 21 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 22 | Among those to whom I sent a copy of the book on publication was Quintin Hailsham , then Lord Chancellor , with whom , despite our differences of opinion on many matters , I had been friendly over the years . |
| 23 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 24 | I had known Katharine for many years , and , in common with other members of the Kingman Committee , I had been impressed by her presentation when she appeared before us to answer questions . |
| 25 | I had been thrilled by Rider Haggard 's stories about the Zulus , especially Nada the Lily in which Mbopo , the blind witchdoctor , tells of the rise and death of Chaka whom he helped to murder . |
| 26 | Since becoming Deputy Chief in 1967 I had been concerned with requests , mostly from foreign governments , to provide instruction in the practice of aircraft accident investigation . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | I had been aware on visits of the changes she had brought into the house , in the food which was more elaborate , recipes culled from women 's magazines , the odd touches about the place , the fact that the bowl full of bulbs was placed on a mat , there were extra arm covers on the chairs , a lace cloth on the chest of drawers in my room , everything had to be protected . |
| 29 | Mary , who now combines her psychology practice with astrological counselling , said : ‘ As a psychologist , for a long time I had been aware of a lack , that this science did not give the whole of the picture . |
| 30 | For seven or eight years I had been aware of a growing numbness , first in the muscles of my right leg and later in those of my left , for which no doctor or specialist could find any adequate explanation . |