I had been too smart for that. A tub had caught all -- ha! ha!

VOA: special.2009.05.16

Many years later he would say, "I had been an artist all my life.

VOA: special.2010.05.31

I had been living for weeks in rough mining camps with other gold miners.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

I knew that he had been lying awake ever since the first noise, when he had turned in the bed.

VOA: special.2009.05.16

I felt close to that kind of thing because I had denied it and had been left away from it so long.

VOA: special.2010.05.23

"I had not been a very good caretaker of most of the things left in my hands,"

VOA: special.2010.11.28

As I handed them to him, I noticed that one had been torn in half and fixed with a piece of blue paper.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

when I've been surprised. When we had like a surprise we got to go out to someplace very fancy, didn't really know what was going to happen ahead of time.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

I could see he had been drinking too much wine.

VOA: special.2009.02.07

"One soldier had been fighting in the jungles for years. And I don't know if it had affected him or not, but when the clerk handed him a tweed suit to try on he spent three hours searching through the fuzz for snipers."

VOA: special.2009.03.09

the president of Chrysler. "This has been the most difficult business decision I've ever personally had to take.

VOA: standard.2009.06.04

"There had recently been riots in Morocco due to the cost of wheat going up, so I traveled there to bake alongside Arab women in a large village oven.

VOA: standard.2010.07.16

"I have been blown up three or four times,three times, and I have been shot at I do not know how many times and then I had diphtheria, measles and pneumonia,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

I had myself been prime minister in the first Gulf war and I knew that when I said something I was utterly certain that it was correct and I said less than I know,".

VOA: standard.2010.01.02