Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 2 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 3 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 4 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 5 | If I 'd been kinder to Leon would he have done those things ? |
| 6 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 7 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
| 8 | If I had been one of their advisers when TV came along I would have said : ‘ Do n't meddle with it . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 10 | In hindsight , if I had been aware of the exact nature of the Foreign Legion , how it operated , and how its members lived , I would have been much more hesitant about joining . |
| 11 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 12 | It was after I had been deep in thought for a long time , stooped forward , that I looked up and saw Adrar , like the celestial city , its towers and palms floating on the mirage of a lake . |
| 13 | It seemed impossible that only a few hours before I had been happy in my cell at the aerodrome . |
| 14 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |