Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 2 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 3 | She apologised for the mess , wiping her hands on her apron and then shaking my hand while I said how sorry I 'd been to hear . |
| 4 | But the one I am sorry I missed was called New Clear Fisson . |
| 5 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 6 | But after I left her , I realized how cruel I had been . |
| 7 | The , the fare for er that I went was thirty two pounds ten . |
| 8 | Oh that I thought were very |
| 9 | This I knew was not a sexual invitation but a protection against the evil eye . |
| 10 | How foolish I had been to believe him , and love him so much ! |
| 11 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 12 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 13 | His room was the most interesting I had been in up to then . |
| 14 | The closeness had somehow died , but apart from this she 'd been so sure there was much he could tell her . |
| 15 | This she discovered was her sort of place . |
| 16 | How sensible she had been not to give way to any of his blandishments . |
| 17 | Mam would never guess how brave she had been all the way home . |
| 18 | Praying , as she sidled along to the changing-room , that no one would ever know how utterly wrong she had been … |
| 19 | The sun was full on her face , and it was clear she had been crying . |
| 20 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 21 | Ruth closed her eyes , the weight of relief making her feel how afraid she 'd been . |
| 22 | It horrified her to think how foolish she had been and she could only excuse herself on the grounds that she had suffered some kind of fit . |
| 23 | Her earlier fears had faded and she thought how foolish she had been to let a ridiculous fancy disturb her happiness . |
| 24 | She recovered herself , grateful that he had either not noticed how jumpy she had been or was willing to pretend he had not . |
| 25 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 26 | This they knew was the work of wolves . |
| 27 | They did not recognize the British calendar , or , indeed , she was later to discover , their own : their first choice of conference date had been Boxing Day , but from this they had been dissuaded . |
| 28 | This they decided was evidence for neutrons coming from the cell . |
| 29 | Accordingly , in the present case it would have been , I think , impossible for the solicitors , however careful they had been , to make an assessment which accurately reflected the remuneration which would have been paid to them and to counsel after the matter had been considered under the arrangements provided by the legal aid board . |
| 30 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |