Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am afraid that I have been indiscreet . ’ |
| 2 | I warn the House — I am afraid that I have been an awful bore in continually pointing this out — that , as we extend the concept of health care out into the community , we shall find more and more unsatisfied demands that have not previously been recognised . |
| 3 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 4 | I 'm 15 years old and I 've been with my current boyfriend for quite a while . |
| 5 | I am fourteen years old and I have been keeping fancy Goldfish for about a year now . |
| 6 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 7 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 8 | Not only have your reports been first-lass but I have been particularly pleased that you were able to establish and maintain such good relations with the girl 's family and with the police . |
| 9 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 10 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 11 | ‘ I always feel sort of furtive and illicit after I 've been with Sebastian . ’ |
| 12 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 13 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 14 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 15 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 16 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 17 | It really should not strike you as odd that I have been enquiring into your affairs — if I may so phrase it . |
| 18 | ‘ I am sorry that I have been so ungrateful in the past for your many generous acts , ’ it began . |
| 19 | Dear love , I get plenty of time to think about us these days , and I 'm more than ever grateful that I have been given such a wonderful person as you to be my wife . |
| 20 | That was the point , I thought , but perhaps machines are more versatile than I have been informed they are . |
| 21 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 22 | I am delighted that I have been able to hit on that point , because the flexibility means that the Opposition can not claim that they will not have enough time to debate those clauses . |
| 23 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 24 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 25 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 26 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
| 27 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 29 | I try to ride last so I can stop now and then to be alone , to look back and be glad that I have been able to come this way , but Tony has the feeling too and has bagged the back spot for the morning run . |
| 30 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |