Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been lucky [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been lucky to book one of the two wheelchair spaces with adjacent seats for my family for last Saturday 's final night of the spectacular Robin of Sherwood musical . |
| 2 | So I said that I had been lucky in a draw for leave , and that now Montague was dead I was to rejoin my original battalion . |
| 3 | I suppose I 've been lucky with my training , having been an engineer . |
| 4 | I 've been lucky to be able to launch the first concept of dread disease insurance , in South Africa you might have heard about us . |
| 5 | Based on the following , delegates , I 've been lucky like many of you , to live in a country where I have had available to me a National Health Service that has been the envy of the world . |
| 6 | I guess I 've been lucky in finding people whose playing I love and who I do n't have to tell what to do . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I know I 've been lucky in my career but I really do believe that something will always turn up , ’ she says . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been lucky in that I 've always had pace , but the regular training and coaching I 've had at Wigan has made me stronger and faster . ’ |
| 9 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 10 | So far I have been lucky in that I have never had to work at getting the next job but there may be a point when I look up and there is no opportunity around the corner . ’ |
| 11 | She gathers that she has been lucky on her journey to avoid the widespread banditry , carried out more often than not by deserters from the army . |
| 12 | Obviously she 'd been lucky in what the travel agency had found for her , she thought approvingly as she glanced round the attractive room . |
| 13 | She had been lucky with the weather . |
| 14 | It was hard for an English girl to get a secretarial job in New York these days — she had been lucky in getting her work permit before the restrictions were so stringent — but maybe one day the conditions would change and there would be more work permits available . |
| 15 | I understand , for example , that within the last few years you have been lucky in receiving a very large legacy from the late Dr D.M. McDonald to build an institute ? |
| 16 | We 've been lucky in that companies and organisations have been supportive of our appeal . |
| 17 | It has been lucky in its track record , having apparently never had the necessity of reinstating a completely failed assignment . |
| 18 | He 's been lucky of course , in that respect , in that he has had something to occupy himself over the last few months as far as the Gulf war is concerned , and in that respect , of course , I think I do n't I think it would be very difficult to fault him . |
| 19 | For some years he 's been lucky to be in a position of being able to pick and choose his work , while admitting ‘ sometimes you have to choose from what 's there and you do n't always necessarily choose the best . |