Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] i have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the experience I had was fantastic and it did n't take long before my salary was considerably more than that . |
| 2 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The man I have been foolish enough to fall for is incapable of trusting me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ The idea I had was crazy , ’ he said slowly . |
| 6 | In the meantime I 've been able to complete the document and have pleasure in enclosing copy for your interest . |
| 7 | Spotting my empty beaker , he grasped the bottle I had been admiring , carefully covering the label with his hand . |
| 8 | At the start of the pitch I 'd been worried I could n't do it ; by the belay I was wondering why I 'd rested so often . |
| 9 | Er , certainly in the last well , all the time I 've been involved in developing these schemes , twenty seven twenty eight years now , we 've had a gradual increase over the years of involvement in the public , with the public and we 've been criticized where we have n't done so . |
| 10 | Many is the time I have been able at my grandmother 's table to lick my fingers after eating a cream coronet upon a precedent established by good Queen Mary who had been observed doing such a thing by no less than my grandmother when visiting the big house . |
| 11 | up to a point I have been able to illustrate this theme by drawing attention to contrasts which are likely to be familiar to all my readers , e.g. the difference in modern Western societies between monetary and non-monetary exchanges . |
| 12 | When I was a postgraduate student , for example , I was about to embark on a research project on a topic I 'd been involved in for many years . |
| 13 | He had taken the name Adrian IV and had ruled the church in the twelfth century , a fact that very few people other than myself knew , but a fact I had been foolish enough to tell McIllvanney whose hatred of ‘ taigs ’ , Catholics , ensured he would never forget my papal connection . |
| 14 | In my experience as an inspector I have been surprised at the frequency with which there are no or inadequate schemes of work within secondary school departments , with the effect that there is either repetition between the years , or gaps and discontinuities . |