Example sentences of "[pron] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier in the day , I had been close to despair . |
| 2 | Unlike the more southern fulmars I had been used to seeing , which are mainly white with grey backs , these northern birds were nearly all a dark smoky grey . |
| 3 | I had been used to analysing speech — such as in a radio discussion — which ran at an average rate of 300 syllables a minute , depending of course on such variables as personality and regional accent ( for some accents are spoken much more rapidly than others ) . |
| 4 | As chairman , I had been involved in its capital reconstruction and ultimate sale to Trafalgar House . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 7 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 8 | But would the story have been told in quite the same way if I had been black , or a woman , or nearer their own age and social background ? |
| 9 | I read throughout the night , glancing at the bed from where , earlier the same day , I had been certain Francis was watching me . |
| 10 | And I had been dumb so long ! |
| 11 | I had been right about one thing — an enormous procession of funeral guests was making its steady way into the riverside church . |
| 12 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 13 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 14 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
| 15 | So I had been right about that . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had been hesitant . |
| 18 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 19 | He could n't understand how I had been married and been in the bloody Air Force and yet did n't know . |
| 20 | Tell me , ’ she added , determined to put things straight between them , ‘ purely as a matter of interest , what would you have done if I had been pregnant ? ’ |
| 21 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 22 | Jan was briskly maternal , having decided that I had been Wronged . |
| 23 | I had been four years at an evangelical theological college but no one had ever put it like that to me . |
| 24 | Being a late developer , I had been small and slim in comparison to most of my peers , and my appearance had been a large part of my character . |
| 25 | Everyone was amazed when my father left , but when I came to consider it I had been relieved . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had been upset by the news about George . |
| 28 | If I had been sober I would never have bloody claimed it ! |
| 29 | I remembered George Crowninshield very well , for he and his wife had been my very first clients on board Wavebreaker and I had been nervous , not just at the prospect of a new job , but because of the client 's eminence . |
| 30 | There I had been present at the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of St Joseph 's College , Sasse , ( pronounced Sassay ) , where I used to teach . |