Example sentences of "[vb past] i have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 2 | If ever I felt I had been rude to her or disobedient , I always felt ashamed . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 4 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 5 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 6 | He thought I had been economical with the truth . |
| 7 | ‘ Because you thought I 'd been cross-examining him about you ? ’ |
| 8 | The girls in the office would say in surprise , ‘ You ought to be shopping ! ’ if I said I had been bird-watching or merely reading in the sunshine . |
| 9 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 10 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |