Example sentences of "i have [be] [adj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 2 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 3 | When I left and went to teach in war-torn London , I knew I had been right to make the most of those precious two years . |
| 4 | I knew that I could achieve results despite the difficulties , and I knew that I had been able to demonstrate the ability to work with people of other countries . |
| 5 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 6 | I accept that you do n't want my condolences , but if I had been able to speak the right words , they would not have been insincere . ’ |
| 7 | It is possible for the race to be won at very long odds , and on two or three occasions , assisted by Wigg , I had been able to locate the winning horse , or at least a horse in the first three , which , if the odds were long enough , nevertheless produced a satisfactory result . |
| 8 | Loss of my letter of introduction from Barry the Magus had meant that I had been unable to make the most of a brief , lacklustre meeting in Puerto Maldonaldo with its adviser Didier Lacaze , a slight , diffident Frenchman . |
| 9 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 10 | It 's the first time in all my life I 've been able to see the back of my nails from the palms of my hands . ’ |
| 11 | In the meantime I 've been able to complete the document and have pleasure in enclosing copy for your interest . |
| 12 | Besides , since yesterday I 've been eager to hear the other half of your story . ’ |
| 13 | I have been delighted to have the opportunity to add to what my hon. Friend the Member for Basildon said . |
| 14 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 15 | And because of the reduction in the national debt in the 1980s , I have been able to allow the so-called ‘ automatic stabilisers ’ — the increases in public spending and the reduction in tax receipts that directly reflect the weakness of the economy — to operate fully . |
| 16 | He suggests that ‘ as far as I have been able to grasp the concept , to be ‘ staff ’ means to have authority without having responsibility . |
| 17 | I have been able to do the washing cos I have n't been able |
| 18 | And it is only fairly recently — probably since my mother 's death — that I have been able to abandon the naive belief that such an apparently ‘ perfect ’ relationship is indicative of a good marriage . |
| 19 | So far I have been able to copy the index made by the South West Shropshire Historical & Archaeological Society , through the kind offices of Mrs Janet Preshous , a B C R S Member who wrote the excellent book ‘ Bishop 's Castle Well Remembered ’ and Mrs Halford , late of the County Records Office . |
| 20 | I have been able to boost the Scottish roads programme at both the national and local level . |
| 21 | However , I have had occasion recently to visit the Church Road offices of the Environmental Health and Building Control sections of the Council and I have been appalled to see the conditions in which these people have to work . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , I have been unable to identify the makers from what you have been able to decipher of the wording on the back . |
| 23 | Editor , — Despite repeated inquiries I have been unable to discover the nature and contents of the remedy called Apitop-F . |
| 24 | In this case , however , I have been unable to make the separation and the fieldwork is both empirical and continuous ; it is diachronic and retrospective , taking in the historical with the contemporary . |