Example sentences of "[adj] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's not a lot the act can do in terms for example of prosecuting people who use deception , it may just be possible I 've been advised , but it 's extremely difficult from an evidential and other point of view to do that . |
| 2 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 3 | I ‘ I hope that what little I have been able to do will enable others to benefit , ’ said Christine . |
| 4 | She did n't look up when I said I was sorry I had been unkind , just went on opening drawers and dropping things and muttering ; I had begun to wonder if she had heard me , when she said , ‘ All right , all right , I 'm going just as soon as I can get my things together , I 'm not one to stay where I 'm not wanted . ’ |
| 5 | sorry I 've been all round the |
| 6 | I 'm sorry , I 'm sorry I 've been a bit steady getting there , but I think it 's an important issue to tackle that , quality is horses for courses and we have to accept the fact that we 're gon na get prestige type jobs and quick slick jobs , especially in the beginning of March every year . |
| 7 | " I 'm sorry I 've been so dreary lately , " she said . |
| 8 | Sorry I 've been a time . |
| 9 | Sorry I 've been to disability Scotland |
| 10 | Sorry I 've been a while , I went into mum 's to take her shopping in and Uncle Philip was there . |
| 11 | She apologised for the mess , wiping her hands on her apron and then shaking my hand while I said how sorry I 'd been to hear . |
| 12 | I am sorry I have been so long in replying but I only got your letter two days ago . |
| 13 | I even took some photographs of myself crying so that I could show them to Marcus later and he could see how upset I had been . |
| 14 | ‘ I do n't mind admitting I 've been wanting to meet you for some time . ’ |
| 15 | But after I left her , I realized how cruel I had been . |
| 16 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
| 17 | Oh I have to agree with that I 've been watching |
| 18 | How generous I have been with my genius . |
| 19 | This is the most upbeat I have been for more than a year . ’ |
| 20 | How foolish I had been to believe him , and love him so much ! |
| 21 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 22 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 23 | His room was the most interesting I had been in up to then . |
| 24 | ‘ But one way and another I 've been quite enough trouble to you already . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so sorry , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've been working too hard . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Poor Dora , I 'm afraid I 've been rather beastly to her . |
| 27 | He does n't talk to me much now because I 'm afraid I 've been the one who 's been tipping him out of the church when he 's smoking . |
| 28 | Although , when he had got it off his chest , he confessed that ‘ I am afraid I have been rather carried away ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ If you knew how much I 've been wanting to do this . ’ |
| 30 | I now realize just how much I have been professionally sustained , over many years , by his example and how much I learnt from his convictions . |