Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [adv] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 2 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 3 | But the fact that I 've never been to England before does n't make me a complete bumpkin . |
| 4 | ‘ My wife rightly points out that I 've never been in a ladies ' loo in my life . |
| 5 | I have been here that long I thought that I had already been on … ‘ |
| 6 | Right now , in the familiar clutter of my office , I had this feeling in my water that I had never been in the room before . |
| 7 | The meeting was held in Harvey Haddon Stadium in Nottingham , and it was the first time that I had ever been on an Inter-City train . |
| 8 | You might like to know that I have recently been in touch with a Mme Francine Roussel ( University of Nancy II , 23 Blvd Albert 1e , Nancy 54000 ) who is just completing a survey review of concordancers . |
| 9 | Baroness Seear , a leader of the Liberal peers for several years , remarks that ‘ I can honestly say that I have never been in a place that treats you better on male-female equality . |
| 10 | This is the sad thing in my life that I have never been in contact with my grandchildren . |
| 11 | I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it . |
| 12 | Our friendship had brought us closer than I had ever been with anyone before . |
| 13 | I was going to be lazier than I had ever been in my life ! |
| 14 | My perennial thoughts of transsexualism and suicide never left me , but in many ways I was happier than I had ever been in my life . |
| 15 | I 'm happier today than I 've ever been in my whole life . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm fitter than I 've ever been in my life . |
| 17 | ‘ I am happier with Gwen than I have ever been in my life — I love her very deeply and I miss her when I 'm not there . ’ |
| 18 | And I 'd no been to bloody . |
| 19 | ‘ But I do n't go abroad on holiday — and I 've never been to the Caribbean , ’ she wailed helplessly as he added yet another gorgeous outfit to the huge pile he 'd already chosen . |
| 20 | It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day . |
| 21 | ( Oh , yes , Benjamin and I had also been to university but , due to minor misunderstandings , had both been asked to leave before we received our degrees . |
| 22 | when I was sixteen because it 's then I started to get these free passes and I had a sister then who lived at Rye and I had never been across London so the next door neighbour came with me to see me across London er because I was so young you see and I said right as long as you show me across London I can come back alone , you see , and so I came back alone and I , that 's when I started , so from sixteen and er and as I say I went to Cambridge in the nineteen thirty one , it was the last day of well say nineteen thirty two , you see , and , and also in the twenties I was going on holiday alone and I went to once er to the Isle of Man and when I was er I , I sat next , well being by myself , you see , they put me in , to a little table near the wall . |
| 23 | And I said well were on our way out so she said alright , were hang on and wait for you to arrive at seven and then I 'll take the rest back . |
| 24 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
| 25 | And I have never been to Ireland . |
| 26 | But er , yes er , I would have been er , I think if I 'd still been in Jim 's place , er quite rightly so , getting all that we can for the town . |
| 27 | It 's unlikely that anybody does it too often , since trippers tend to make skiing an all-day outing , but I 've often been on the beach with people planning a ski trip next day . |
| 28 | ‘ But I 've never been to the Lodge . |
| 29 | but I 've never been to it |
| 30 | As you may know , our family lived in NZ from 1969 to 1978 and last year we returned for a 6-month tour , but I 've never been over the Haast Pass so that is a personal goal for me ! |