Example sentences of "that i [vb past] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 9 | 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 . |