Example sentences of "i have be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress .
2 I have been to many throughout the country .
3 I have been to many of those areas and seen the problems .
4 I have been to both places and can assure you , there is a great difference .
5 I have been to enough ecclesiastical congresses which have claimed that the voice of the Holy Spirit lay behind the votes of the big battalions to be sickened by it .
6 I mean I have been into this window frame business .
7 I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have .
8 This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’
9 I have been through all these emotions myself .
10 I have been through such a storm before , and it is the gusting that is most dangerous . ’
11 I 've been on that plane , I have been on that plane
12 A lady who suffers with a hiatus hernia wrote , ‘ I have had to take Rennies after meals for years but since I have been on this diet I have n't had a Rennie for five weeks !
13 I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view .
14 I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be .
15 In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ !
16 But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’
17 Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player .
18 I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’
19 I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift .
20 Even more exhilarating was the fact that already his ambitions as a choreographer were making progress : ‘ I have been in such a state lately !
21 ‘ No , but it is not the first time I have been in such a situation .
22 Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk .
23 I have been in this game a lifetime and wonder in what direction it is going and where it will all end up .
24 I have been in this city a week today .
25 ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before .
26 There is no use in telling a customer wanting to go to San Marino ( as I have been in three central London agencies ) that it does n't exist , that he really means San Remo .
27 This crypt-room is so stuffy , the walls squeeze in , I 'm listening for him as I write , the thoughts I have are like bad drawings .
28 The other difficulty I have is with some of these criteria and their use at a strategic level .
29 I have was for many years the national chairman of the Association of Independent Businesses .
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