Example sentences of "i [adv] [vb base] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think better of myself today as a matter of fact , I am more of a confident fighter than I ever have been . |
| 2 | I think better of myself today as a matter of fact , I 'm more of a confident fighter than I ever have been . |
| 3 | You may not yourself be in the habit of taking this small precaution to avoid knocking at some highly inappropriate moment , but I always have been and can vouch that it is common practice amongst many professionals . |
| 4 | But you should be curious about mechanics , which I always have been . |
| 5 | ‘ I always have been , ever since we first started working together . ’ |
| 6 | I always have been . |
| 7 | ‘ I always have been . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , yes , I always have been . |
| 9 | I really have been evil ! |
| 10 | ‘ I really have been trying my best — ’ |
| 11 | I 'm not and I never have been a hippy , I ca n't just ‘ hang out ’ any more . |
| 12 | But I never have been able to bring myself to watch the video . |
| 13 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 14 | I 'm not beautiful and I never have been . |
| 15 | Larissa talks of going beyond structuralism and goes so far as to disown it : ‘ of course I am not a structuralist I never have been I merely played with it ’ ( 84/662 ) . |
| 16 | I am not in love with Nicole and I never have been . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I am not in love with Florian and I never have been . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not careless , I never have been … |
| 19 | ‘ You are that part of me that I cut off , and I never have been and never shall be whole without you . ’ |
| 20 | Well , the woman 's 'usband started to fancy me , but I was n't 'aving that , I 'm not that kind of a girl , I never 'ave been . |
| 21 | The letters in the May GRAMOPHONE from Messrs Lewis and Newman interest me greatly , because I too have been frustrated by the failure of EMI/US to offer some items which have been favourably reviewed in GRAMOPHONE . |
| 22 | ‘ Madam , I too have been a wanderer in these woods for some time . |
| 23 | Not the desire to destroy it , but rather to turn time back and let me never have been involved with it . |