Example sentences of "i had been too " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 2 | Perhaps I had been too forward , I thought , taken too much for granted . |
| 3 | Suddenly it came home to me with tremendous force that this was my last chance , the very last of all the countless chances I had thrown away just like this , because I had been too lazy or too proud to exploit them properly . |
| 4 | At first I did n't know who the bearded man was for ( as I realise now ) I had been too busy participating to see . |
| 5 | Content with humiliation , satisfied with disappointment , I had been too selfish to reach out . |