Example sentences of "that i have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | sidelong eyes that I 've not been bad |
2 | Before that I 've always been involved in women 's journals , including Women 's Report which is one of the early women 's monitoring journals in this country . |
3 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
4 | ‘ There 's a parochial side to Scotland that I 've never been able to accept . |
5 | Soon I 'll have enough money for a really powerful crossbow , and that I 'm certainly looking forward to ; it 'll help make up for the fact that I 've never been able to persuade my father to buy a rifle or a shotgun that I could use sometimes . |
6 | Oh she probably heard that I had not been well |
7 | This was a very great help to me , because I was able to learn the meaning of many words that I had not been able to understand before . |
8 | It is not surprising that I have not been able to finish them , for I never have a single quiet hour here . |
9 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
10 | It 's only that I have n't been able to get to the bank , being ill and all that , and I have n't got any money for the rent . |
11 | Now I might forget some of them but , er , what about er , you , seeing as how your skill is one that I have n't been able to acquire yet , Jo how did you get to make the perfect quiche . |
12 | ( I subsequently had ( 27 April ) a site meeting with an EGBT official , who completed a proposal form on the spot — however , the funding aspects are not my main concern here ; suffice it to say , 1 ) that I have always been confident that funding would be secured from one source or another , and 2 ) that my direct approach to SNH was done only because I had indications that their project approvals took months rather than weeks — something I have subsequently been assured is not true ) . |
13 | We lived for a year in a cottage attached to a remote farm — so remote that I have never been able to find it again . |
14 | Because of my very varied upbringing I have found that I have never been able to analyse the political effects of any discrimination . |
15 | It is of the eighth magnitude , but I admit that I have never been able to see it with certainty even with × 20 binoculars , though it is easy enough in a telescope . |
16 | The colour is obvious with a telescope , but I confess that I have never been able to detect it with binoculars , even × 20 . |
17 | There were various factors that came into making this decision but one of the things is I 'm heartily sick that I have never been able to go away on holiday in the autumn ever in my life . |