Example sentences of "i [vb base] always been [adj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've always been curious to know how you did it … |
| 2 | I 've always been prepared to help wherever I could . |
| 3 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've always been able to breathe . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've always been able to do it , probably because I used to play soccer . |
| 6 | Except for the two years after Martin drowned I 've always been able to believe that at the heart of the universe there is love . ’ |
| 7 | I usually stand up when a lady enters the room ( if the lady in question is one of those battling Berthas from Bermondsey who staff the Informer office , her subsequent confusion delights me ) , and I have always been anxious to place my education and superior talents at the service of the Radical Left . |
| 8 | I suspect that is merely because I have always been able to anticipate when a fox is likely to be present as the result of scent , footprints and tell-tale evidence around the burrow mouth . |
| 9 | It can help you concentrate on the inner content of the music ; and I have always been able to establish a real sense of what the musicians are doing . |
| 10 | I have always been able to knock off twenty years . |
| 11 | … I have always been able to accept non-cooperation only as an effective instrument of nationalist propaganda . |
| 12 | I have always been careful to leave no stone unturned , ever since a time in Philadelphia when a particularly uncomfortable sofa turned out to be hiding a pair of magnificent George III sideboard dishes , subsequently sold for $66,000 . |