Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i [verb] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 6 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |