Example sentences of "that i have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since I married my husband I 've only met two men , that 's in seven years , that I 've even been tempted with , ’ said the voice above her . |
| 2 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 3 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 4 | ‘ I ca n't believe it 's such a coincidence , that I 've actually been staying in the house of the person I came to look for ! |
| 5 | He has been the most inspiring of any artist that I 've ever been exposed to one way or another . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't think that I 've ever been questioned about them . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's just that I 've never been deported before . ’ |
| 8 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 9 | ‘ I was annoyed that I 'd never been told about this illness in England ’ , says Leslie . |
| 10 | Laing was at pains to stress that at no time did he feel under pressure : ‘ It was that I 'd never been caught before and I did n't know what to do . |
| 11 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 12 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 13 | ‘ Melissa … ’ she hesitated and decided to go ahead ‘ … was just pointing out that I had n't been invited to your birthday party . ’ |
| 14 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 15 | It was true that I had n't been to see Jeeta or Anwar for a long time , what with the moving and my depression and everything , and wanting to start a new life in London and know the city . |
| 16 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 17 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 18 | I could have got annoyed that I had n't been left on my own , but I had to admit that by myself I had only succeeded in getting sucked into my own sub-persona . |
| 19 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 20 | It became apparent very soon that I had not been employed because of my skills as a salesman . |
| 21 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 22 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 23 | I suppose the problem was that I had never been told about it officially — that is , by an adult — and so I had somehow blocked off the information , not connecting it with myself , with my own body . |
| 24 | Spoiled by the fact that I had always been treated with respect because I was a veterinary surgeon , a member of an honourable profession . |
| 25 | And again there will be the same erm circumstances that I have just been describing for other people applying here . |
| 26 | ‘ I realised for the first time that I have never been wanted : it really was such a revelation . |
| 27 | ‘ It is only that I have never been proposed to so abruptly , so boldly before . ’ |
| 28 | One Sunday , I went to one of the best planned and happiest birthday parties that I have ever been invited to . |