Example sentences of "that i have [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was quite phenomenal and I felt that I had been privileged to run in such a race . |
| 32 | I could accept that I had been foolish , but that acceptance was not yet a sufficient antidote for the niggling little pain in my heart . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 35 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 36 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 37 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 38 | Since those days I have sometimes wished that I had been able to record on tape the conversations I had with Gilbert Harding , who was an intellectual . |
| 39 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 40 | In spite of the rain 's best efforts , I was pleased that I had been able to observe and film interesting mink behaviour . |
| 41 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 42 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 43 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 44 | Dagenham boss John Still said : ‘ That was the best match that I have been involved with in 14 years of management . |
| 45 | Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can |
| 46 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 47 | And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here . |
| 48 | Kindly note that I have been specific on the daily to do list . |
| 49 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 50 | Now that I have been honest with you . ’ |
| 51 | The difference being that I have been fortunate to find a career that I love and , what is more , get paid reasonably for it . |
| 52 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 53 | And it is only fairly recently — probably since my mother 's death — that I have been able to abandon the naive belief that such an apparently ‘ perfect ’ relationship is indicative of a good marriage . |
| 54 | A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " . |
| 55 | ‘ I suppose I have learned that I have been able to survive an experience such as this , which certainly I would not have bet on myself to do . |
| 56 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 57 | –This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 58 | ‘ This is the fourth annual report which I have presented to the Village Association in the last five years and it is for me the most pleasing , not because I am standing down as chairman but because I feel that it is the most positive report that I have been able to give . |
| 59 | The only other argument that I have been able to find in support of tonight 's regulations is where the DSS states that the use of regulation 72 puts ’ an over-emphasis on the Department 's welfare role and overlooks the fact that persons acting for the claimant could have made inquiries on the claimant 's behalf . ’ |
| 60 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |