Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 2 | ‘ The thing is , you see , I realize that I 've been rather stupid and rather selfish , and I 'd like to apologize . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ My problem is that I 've been too open and trusting , ’ she says sweetly . |
| 4 | Oh well if he wants to know why I 'm there and me are you off sick I shall just show him a I 've got proof that I 've been off sick . |
| 5 | It had n't crossed my mind , but I was grateful now that I 'd been too busy throwing up to examine the body too closely . |
| 6 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 7 | I told him that ever since listening to my father 's vivid descriptions of Constantinople I had always wanted to visit the city , but that I had been sadly disillusioned by the Turks I had seen on my way to the Embassy ; they had looked so incongruous in second-hand European clothes . |
| 8 | Rather than concluding that I had been too radical in Opposition , I fast came to the view 1 had been too cautious . |
| 9 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 10 | Beth Stubbs was a Quaker , a member of that old Mafia that I had been so wary of . |
| 11 | On one occasion , when playing to a group of Durham University students , I told them that I had been personally responsible for Nelson Mandela 's release , and a tuxedo-clad toff suggested I should n't have bothered . |
| 12 | I felt that I had been very clumsy . |
| 13 | So good was his work , so fulfilling of my ambitions , that I have been well content to let my narrative in this book play second fiddle to his excellent photographs . |
| 14 | ‘ I am sorry that I have been so ungrateful in the past for your many generous acts , ’ it began . |
| 15 | And I 'd been there four year , really , wipe shit from her arse every morning |
| 16 | I have just completed a round of visits to most of the fund raising regions in England and Wales and I 've been most impressed by the preparations that are underway to prepare for our seventy fifth birthday . |
| 17 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 18 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 19 | What er , is this not out of true , by my visits to various homes , and I 've been very impressed with the , the er , general conditions , the care , er , of the residents and everything else . |
| 20 | Like the pram , it is sturdy and well made , and I 've been very pleased with it . |
| 21 | Suppose I 'm an industrialist listening to this programme , and I 've been very interested in what you 've been saying , and I feel that I 've got a problem that the University could possibly give me some advice on . |
| 22 | I could not see the female but , as I was raised to their shoulders , I caught a glimpse of my happy home , that cave where Elsbeth and I had been so content . |
| 23 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 24 | ‘ Except that Sir John and I have been most zealous in this matter . |
| 25 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |
| 26 | These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement . |
| 27 | I have seen frequently over the last year and I have been very grateful for her friendship , not to mention the clothes she has lent me which her daughter has outgrown . |
| 28 | I think a lot of the thoughts of Donald Steel have commonsense logic , and I have been much impressed by the work of Bob Cupp , the designer of East Sussex National and whose new courses , Settindown Creek and Reynolds Plantation , I was able to play during my trip to the U.S. These courses can be long but they are of generous width and , from forward tees , are playable for players of all standards . |
| 29 | I never had enough time to spare for my wife , let alone other women — even if I 'd been so inclined , which I was not . ’ |
| 30 | She only swallows as a special treat if I 've been really good or something . |