Example sentences of "i have been [adj] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 2 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 3 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ I have been involved in detailed talks with Michael Knighton for several days . |
| 5 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 6 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 7 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 8 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |