Example sentences of "i had been a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wish I had been a man , that 's all . |
| 2 | Last time I had been a fool enough to close French doors and knew they were there only frantic moments later , when I saw blood spatter my wrists and hands , like a fly buzzing , like a bird beating against the see-through reality . |
| 3 | I explained that I had not entered at the right time because I had been a hostage in Iraq . |
| 4 | And I knew I had been a child when I first came to live with him . |
| 5 | He had been curled up there , dead in his basket , since I had been a child in a velvet-collared coat . |
| 6 | I think it was his fourth , but as I had been a child during this proliferation of fiancées I was n't certain . |
| 7 | Mr Singh , a Kenyan Asian , confessed to me , after I had been a friend of the family for several years , that he was neither fluent in Swahili , the language of his education up to 13 , nor in Punjabi , his mother tongue . |
| 8 | I had been a gang leader in Harehills — first administering the lives of younger children , then by brass , bossiness and imagination extending judgement even over older boys . |
| 9 | In the early days I had been a bit disappointed that the NUJ had n't immediately leapt to John 's defence , but ever since I had first been to see the General Secretary , Harry Conroy , and his assistant , Tom Nash , the union had done what it could to respond to what was asked of them . |
| 10 | I had been a vessel of pure water and I had been spilled . |
| 11 | If I had been a marquis , I felt , I would still have been in bed or perhaps just parting the curtains and peering out to see what kind of day it was But Lord Hulton worked all the time , just about as hard as any of his men . |
| 12 | In any case , it is too difficult for me , and I wish I had been a movie comedian or something of the sort and had never heard of physics ’ . |
| 13 | So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years . |
| 14 | I had been a thing of firm , clear outlines ; now I seemed to splay out in all directions and to have assumed a shape , thanks to undue accretions of flesh , which bore no relation to the person I believed to exist within it . |