Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life for me has never been dull around you what more could I ask ? |
| 2 | I 'd never been involved in before as an Area Housing Officer , and just involved with day to day management , but with it being a clearance area it 's a totally different approach , and the sort of things that you deal with are totally different as well . |
| 3 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 4 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd always been good with a sewing machine , ’ she says , ‘ so a kindly neighbour asked me to run her up a few silk separates for the summer holidays . |
| 7 | This she combines admirably with looking after 14-year-old Alex , 12-year-old Rosie , and 5-year-old twins Fifi ( Fiona ) and Nicky : ‘ It was a new direction but something I 'd always been interested in . |
| 8 | Who should I have always been guilty of believing that I had never done enough ? |
| 9 | I had previously been successful in negotiating a settlement between the Boulting brothers and Elvin 's union , where I had enjoyed establishing a warm and friendly relationship With both sides . |
| 10 | I had never been awake in it as early as that before . |
| 11 | On the plus side was the fact that the Foreign Office and the years spent in Cabinet were a good apprenticeship , while in addition I had never been afraid of taking decisions . |
| 12 | In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week . |
| 13 | I had always been keen on hillwalking and loved nothing more than escaping to the peace of the hills with my three oldest and closest friends . |
| 14 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 15 | Maybe I delivered my opinion more bluntly than I should have , but I had always been candid with Ted . |
| 16 | ‘ I had always been interested in flying kites ever since I was young , so when someone offered me one for sale , I jumped at the chance , ’ added , whose wife has also become hooked on the sport . |
| 17 | I had always been interested in history , but Ken with his great command of English was able to explain it and put life into it , particularly when talking about his hero , Charles I. ’ |
| 18 | Before I went to Miss Havisham 's and met Estella , I had always wanted to be apprenticed to Joe , and I had always been happy at home , in spite of my sister 's scolding . |
| 19 | I had always been appalled by the ease with which men seemed able to separate sex and love and now here was I building a high wall around myself and saying , ‘ I will let you into my body but stay out of my mind . ’ |
| 20 | However , when I took to hanging about in the new house , when I watched her while she chatted to her staff and guests , or entertained the local burghers , or genteelly remonstrated with her suppliers and various tradesmen over the phone , I began to see this seeming tact as an extension of that complicity I had long been aware of . |
| 21 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 22 | They 're not actually erm , using the D S O , and I 've just been involved in the |
| 23 | I 've just been involved in the selection of caterers for erm , South Wilts Grammar School , and I 've got to say , and I 've told Mr this , because he criticised me , Concept Catering were n't in the le in the frame . |
| 24 | ‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’ |
| 25 | I 've purely been concerned with the budgets of our own schools here in Oxfordshire and one of the ways that you can compare how efficient Oxfordshire is in terms of its expenditure is by looking at the national figures for recoupment , that 's where a county takes in a child from another county , and look how that compares with the amount of money the Authority spends on educating that child . |
| 26 | Everyone I 've ever been serious about has wanted marriage and children , ultimately . |
| 27 | I was as sure as anything I 've ever been sure about in my whole life that he wished he was still an actor . |
| 28 | I think we deserved it because that was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with . |
| 29 | ‘ That was one of the finest team performances I 've ever been involved with ’ Gavin Hastings |
| 30 | ‘ I 've often been guilty of overwriting and some of our older songs used to have two three pages of words , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |