Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [adj] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
| 2 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 3 | Since becoming Deputy Chief in 1967 I had been concerned with requests , mostly from foreign governments , to provide instruction in the practice of aircraft accident investigation . |
| 4 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 5 | He thought I had been economical with the truth . |
| 6 | Not half an hour back I had been dewy-eyed with nostalgia for him . |
| 7 | Despite the passion in Glasgow he did not have to show his yellow card once as Rangers won 2-1 and Wilkinson said : ‘ It 's always important to have a good referee , but I 've been pleased with the standard of refereeing this season . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better 'oppit now or me young man might get to 'ear I 've been dilly-dallying with you . ’ |
| 9 | Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that . |
| 10 | ‘ The reason I do n't have a band is that for the longest time I 've been disgusted with the mode that the American independent scene operates in and I do n't want to be associated with that . |
| 11 | She considers this ‘ probably the most exciting thing I 've been involved with . |
| 12 | In all , I 've been involved with the Dyfed Wildlife Trust for about 25 years . |
| 13 | Where I 've been involved with the marketing groups to bring advertising . |
| 14 | The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'VE BEEN BORED WITH BOXING FOR YEARS . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been bored with boxing for almost four years . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one of the few races where I 've been happy with my performance . |
| 18 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 19 | I 'd say , I 've been naked with a man I loathed . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been miserable with you for five years , Dimitri . |
| 21 | I suppose I 've been lucky with my training , having been an engineer . |
| 22 | That 's , I tell you what that 's the one person that , sitting here thinking now , I ca n't think of any time where I 've been angry with Andrew |
| 23 | Often during my varied and extremely active life , I have been overcome with acute nostalgia for Bristol and my University days — truly some of the happiest of my memories . |
| 24 | As an enthusiastic Darwinian , I have been dissatisfied with explanations that my fellow-enthusiasts have offered for human behaviour . |
| 25 | For most of my time in the House , I have been dissatisfied with them in the same way as I was dissatisfied with private Bills . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been disappointed with our results , but I would like to stay on and honour my contract which keeps me in the post until December 1994 , ’ said the Dutchman . |
| 27 | In my work I have been involved with many families who have needed to arrange a funeral . |
| 28 | Dagenham boss John Still said : ‘ That was the best match that I have been involved with in 14 years of management . |
| 29 | Simon comments : ‘ I have been involved with the AOI since it started in 1973 . |
| 30 | ‘ I have been involved with Tencel since the early '80s . |