Example sentences of "i [verb] [adv] [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd never been interested in guitarists as guitarists until I heard Johnny Marr . |
| 3 | She knew I 'd never been interested in Florian . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd worked in studios before , really complicated state-of-the-art stuff , and I 'd always been obsessed with multi-tracking . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Who should I have always been guilty of believing that I had never done enough ? |
| 8 | I had n't been involved in the organization and knew very little about what was going to happen . |
| 9 | I had n't been tongue-tied in Switzerland , with Masha , Rozanov pointed out . |
| 10 | I had n't been aware of the dust in the convent garden . |
| 11 | I had n't been alone on this drinking jag . |
| 12 | If I had n't been rigid with shock , I might have found it ironic . |
| 13 | if I had n't been stuck in the office all day , if I could of been out and about somewhere it would of been even nicer |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I had not been long in the restaurant car : ten minutes , the length of a cognac . |
| 16 | I realized I had not been fair to myself . |
| 17 | Slowly the pressures of its differences bore down on my thinking and decisions , prying open my defences and forcing me to face questions I had not been conscious of before . |
| 18 | I had never been awake in it as early as that before . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Uganda I had always been keen on the latest styles , trying new clothes from week to week . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Maybe I delivered my opinion more bluntly than I should have , but I had always been candid with Ted . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | 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. ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I should not be alive today if I had ever been guilty of complacency or carelessness , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The obvious highlight was Couples 's first major victory in the U.S Masters and the 33-year-old conceded : ‘ I 've not been close to that form since . ’ |