Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] i have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | ‘ So if I 'd been queer , what happened this morning would n't have ? ’ |
| 3 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 4 | It was thus that I had been able to gain some sense of the sort of place Miss Kenton had gone to live her married life . |
| 5 | As time has progressed I have produced a bit more and I have been prepared to show things that went a bit further back ; I have extended the oeuvre at both ends . |
| 6 | ‘ The bag is gone forever but I have been able at least to recover this . ’ |
| 7 | Must admit probably cos my old man 's had them ever since I 've been alive . |
| 8 | I assured him truthfully that I had been impressed by his skill and speed , and I thought his results marvellous . |
| 9 | But I wished fervently that I had been able to do more , and as I passed my hand along the richly coloured coat over the ribs the vast bandaged finger stood out like a symbol of my helplessness . |
| 10 | Clearly if I had been aware that we were going to be talking about the merits of other routes , then I would have prepared a different statement . |
| 11 | Now that I have been honest with you . ’ |
| 12 | And let me say now that I have been impressed by certain of the arguments I have heard here . |
| 13 | Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … |
| 14 | And , as far as I had been able to judge , the feeling was pretty mutual . |
| 15 | As far as I have been able to discover , the first papers in French West Africa to be owned and controlled by Africans were Le Cri Nègre and Le Phare du Dahomey . |
| 16 | The view of these two organizations , as far as I have been able to discover , runs something like this . |
| 17 | Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover . |
| 18 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 19 | As far as I have been able to find out , it has no specific connection with Bristol but is named after Nonsuch Palace , which was built in Surrey near Hampton Court . |
| 20 | But you said yourself just a few moments ago that I 've been involved in a world where drugs are common currency . ’ |
| 21 | I could have run away , but I had no money and , even if I had been able to borrow it , I should still have been too frightened because I had nowhere to run to . |
| 22 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 23 | I was never really happy about the explanation but I had no proof of my own misgivings about it and anyway I would n't have known where to start looking even if I 'd been convinced then that she was alive . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ They would n't have taken 'im even if I 'd been willing to part with 'im , me being a widow . |
| 25 | Oh yes , I knew where he was , even though I 'd been unconscious going in and coming out , because I 'd been there before . |
| 26 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 27 | 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 . |