Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where I 've been involved with the marketing groups to bring advertising . |
| 2 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 3 | Or that I 've been involved in a murder . |
| 4 | But you said yourself just a few moments ago that I 've been involved in a world where drugs are common currency . ’ |
| 5 | Well , the studies that I 've been involved in , the computer has performed certainly as well as a consultant , and at times much better than a junior doctor in the particular situation that I 'm talking about . |
| 6 | That 's not so worrying , but I feel that I 've been successful in my own right and I would erm like to think I deserve the same recognition as we 've both set same standards over the last twelve months . |
| 7 | ‘ Did n't you guess , my beautiful idiot , that I 've been crazy about you from the first time I saw you standing outside your hotel bedroom in France ? ’ |
| 8 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 9 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | For me , it was sufficient satisfaction that Eliot had approved my essay ; that he considered it the best thing I had done ; and that I had been one of the few to express opinions which had his total concurrence . |
| 12 | When the tent was up , I had to prove that I had been right about the proximity of a village . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 15 | So I said that I had been lucky in a draw for leave , and that now Montague was dead I was to rejoin my original battalion . |
| 16 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 17 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 18 | Dagenham boss John Still said : ‘ That was the best match that I have been involved with in 14 years of management . |
| 19 | Er , the comment here the way that I have been used to doing these I found that I I like it and the kids can |
| 20 | And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here . |
| 21 | Kindly note that I have been specific on the daily to do list . |
| 22 | Now that I have been honest with you . ’ |
| 23 | I say that I have been sick with flu . |
| 24 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |
| 26 | I borrowed one of my dad 's mail-order magazines , and , leafing through the screeds of bankrupt stock , out-of-date and obsolete machines , put together a portable package capable of holding huge chunks of typically verbose Mortonesque meanderings , and spitting them down telephone wires eight times faster than I 'd been used to . |
| 27 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 28 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 29 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 30 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |