Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would n't have got to wear this if I 'd been a factory worker . ’ |
| 2 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 3 | I know this because I have been glancing at a magazine called Rubiks printed in English and published in Budapest . |
| 4 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 5 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 6 | But I think he 's tarmacked this since I 've been , no he has n't . |
| 7 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 8 | ‘ I always feel sort of furtive and illicit after I 've been with Sebastian . ’ |
| 9 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 10 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 11 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 12 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 13 | I found your motherboard upgrade article most interesting as I have been thinking of upgrading my XT , but I had not bargained for changing the keyboard as I have a 102 key board ( no XT/AT switch ) . |
| 14 | That was the point , I thought , but perhaps machines are more versatile than I have been informed they are . |
| 15 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 16 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 17 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 18 | I have n't been to Heathrow as much as I 'd been to Gatwick |
| 19 | I was becoming an old hand by now ; I was n't nearly as nervous as I had been the other times , even though the audience was twice the size . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose I could have got action like that if I 'd been a count , ’ she mused . |
| 22 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 24 | No , I do n't want to do it but I mean I 'm not I 'm certainly happier than I have been about it if |
| 25 | In early 1986 , my foot finally healed and I began to train as if I was as fit as I had been before my injury . |
| 26 | I soon realised that not everyone was as naive as I had been and I fell out with Kate and Alison . |
| 27 | No , I would have done it exactly the same , I would have just hoped that I would have been as lucky as I have been . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But I was so ready to become a mother , and I 'm happy and more confident than I 've been before . |
| 30 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |