Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 5 | Striker Atkinson said : ‘ I 've felt better since I 've been in the unit . |
| 6 | It had got considerably thicker while I 'd been eating . |
| 7 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 8 | I was certainly not ill , although I had yet to recover from the effects of the operation and was far weaker than I had been BC , but I was well . |
| 9 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 10 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 11 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 12 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 13 | Ex-motorcycle gang member with murder , kidnap and serious drug offences going on longer than I 've been alive . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's a lot keener than I 'd been used to , because here you are not guaranteed a place . |