Example sentences of "i had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of years after coming out , I met a heterosexual woman with whom I had been particularly close before I had blasted our cosy set up out of the water . |
| 2 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 3 | I had been badly man-handled and beaten . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation . |
| 6 | It might have been more depressing if I had been otherwise ready to leave . |
| 7 | At college I had been thoroughly disgusted with the male egos that dominated the left-wing student politics . |
| 8 | But I had been sufficiently intrigued by the stories I had heard of William to want to find out . |
| 9 | Even if I had been sufficiently knowledgeable about the NHS funding system to counter his arguments , I still would n't have felt up to political sparring . |
| 10 | I could not see the female but , as I was raised to their shoulders , I caught a glimpse of my happy home , that cave where Elsbeth and I had been so content . |
| 11 | What had been wildly romantic to begin with turned into something else over the years , although I could always look at him and remember why I had been so stricken . |
| 12 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 13 | I had been so sure he would n't know me . |
| 14 | Rather to the surprise of my new employers , since I had been so eager to work for them , I told them I should not be able to start for a fortnight ( I needed to recover , being exhausted by my burden of guilt ) . |
| 15 | My father and Elizabeth did not want me to go to England alone , because I had been so ill . |
| 16 | I had been so horrified by Jason Purvis ' physical condition that , almost unwittingly , I had taken him in hand . |
| 17 | Beth Stubbs was a Quaker , a member of that old Mafia that I had been so wary of . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If only I had been less impatient and tried to go last . |
| 20 | I felt that I had been very clumsy . |
| 21 | I had never seen it other than murky before along that particular section so I decided to walk the far bank and see what I could in the swims where I had been very successful . |
| 22 | But then I had been very ignorant of the disease ; now I was wiser . |
| 23 | I had been very impressed by Jacob Bronowski 's television series , The Ascent of Man . |
| 24 | Before my condition was diagnosed , I had been very bored with life . |
| 25 | It was my first piece , and I got it in my head immediately ; I had been very depressed and I think he saved my life . ’ |
| 26 | I demurred , pointing out to Haines that as the chairman of the Newspaper Publishers Association I had been very careful to avoid interfering with press stories in any way . |
| 27 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 28 | I had been very ill . |
| 29 | I had been very lucky , so far . |
| 30 | I had been very anti-body before . |