Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [adj] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 2 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 3 | So I had been right about that . |
| 4 | The shots were going to look terrific , but this was ridiculous — the very thing I had been cynical about and did not wish to do I was doing ; carrying a bike both up and down a mountain . |
| 5 | I had been worried about the vodka . |
| 6 | She had been right about Short ; the way to get him to listen was to treat him as if he were a human being , which he clearly was n't . |
| 7 | She had been right about the importance of Brückner 's story . |
| 8 | The storeroom ( yes , she had been right about that after all ) was not very big and not very well lit . |
| 9 | But she had been right about the other thing , so maybe she was right about this . |
| 10 | So she had been right about his mood ! |
| 11 | So she had been right about Rebecca after all , she thought as they walked back towards the main part of the house . |
| 12 | She could remember the incident quite clearly , although the circumstances surrounding it had vanished into oblivion , beyond recall of any form of analysis : it had been early afternoon , so clearly not a party incident — maybe they had had lunch together ? — and she had been anxious about picking up children from school . |
| 13 | She had been uneasy about the visit ; the cottage , as always , drew her , despite the fact that she was n't sure of Marshall . |
| 14 | The lady remembered my visit well , said she had been concerned about me and confided that , to provide me with a good meal , she had walked the five miles into Lochinver and back to buy fresh fish . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'll need wood for a fire , ’ returned Isabel with aplomb , not about to admit that she had been worried about him . |
| 16 | She admits she had been worried about the consequences ever since even though hospital scans seemed to show everything was all right . |
| 17 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 18 | She had thought he would be happy about Mrs Gotobed 's message because she would have been , but she had been wrong about that . |
| 19 | He sounded angry ; she had been wrong about the amusement . |
| 20 | After all , she had been wrong about everything else . |
| 21 | If she had been wrong about him … ? |
| 22 | With pensions we had been open about holding an inquiry . |
| 23 | Certainly , they could not have studied the group if they had been honest about themselves , but perhaps that just means that there are some social contexts that we can not study . |
| 24 | After all they had been force-fed about the godliness of the Khomeini regime , here was Reagan as a ‘ man of God ’ ( North 's words ) who had gone away for a ‘ whole weekend ’ to pray about the Frankfurt meeting and had come up all by himself with an inscription for a Bible to be given to the Iranians . |
| 25 | How absurd it seemed — that they had been worried about Therese in Zarewitsch . |
| 26 | He had been unhappy about efflorescent damp . |
| 27 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 28 | A chuckle was her only answer as he closed the door behind him , and she jumped out of bed and into the bathroom in case he had been serious about the fifteen minutes . |
| 29 | He had been correct about the pain . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , again , as though it were the most reasonable thing in the world , but she saw that her mother looked worried , and that doubtless Papa was behaving as he did because he had been worried about her , his darling , whom he had sent away from him , only to lose her in a foreign country — for that was what Britain was . |