Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have lost so many big barbel on the Hampshire Avon , Dorset Stour , and the Severn through this that I have been ready to dispense altogether with swimfeeder fishing for big barbel . |
| 2 | I am afraid that I have been indiscreet . ’ |
| 3 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 4 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 5 | She said , with a catch in her voice , ‘ I — I wish very much that I 'd been able to meet him . ’ |
| 6 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 7 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 8 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 9 | He found it extraordinary that I had been able simply to get into a car in Britain and drive unhindered to Roztoky . |
| 10 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 11 | Situations are more dynamic than I have been able to describe . |
| 12 | In spite of the rain 's best efforts , I was pleased that I had been able to observe and film interesting mink behaviour . |
| 13 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 14 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 15 | Ex-motorcycle gang member with murder , kidnap and serious drug offences going on longer than I 've been alive . |
| 16 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |