Example sentences of "that i had been [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence .
3 When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village .
4 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 .
5 Jan was briskly maternal , having decided that I had been Wronged .
6 I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous .
7 As I came down into Salisbury that day I knew for the first time that I had been happy .
8 It was quite phenomenal and I felt that I had been privileged to run in such a race .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 In spite of the rain 's best efforts , I was pleased that I had been able to observe and film interesting mink behaviour .
18 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 .
19 I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad .
20 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 .
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