Example sentences of "been [adj] [conj] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't have been asleep when I lifted the ledger from her lap and scanned its pages : she must have been watching me all the time . |
| 2 | Carrying a tray of glasses would have been easier if the floor had been stable but I made it to the far end with only a lurch or two and delivered the goods as required . |
| 3 | I 've been upset and I 'm quite alone in Waldron City . |
| 4 | This is the first year I 've put Lynda into the Giants , but her recent exposure has been terrific and I 'm sure will do wonders for this twins tale spotted with sex and violence with Auschwitz roots . |
| 5 | They may have even been friendly but I remembered the old saying , ‘ On a dark lonely road , one never meets a friend ’ . ’ |
| 6 | It 's just that today 's been strange and I thought maybe , oh . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Yes , and you 'd have been grateful that I 'd gone . |
| 8 | Not only have your reports been first-lass but I have been particularly pleased that you were able to establish and maintain such good relations with the girl 's family and with the police . |
| 9 | Gazza said : ‘ Some of what he did might have been wrong but I respect the fact that Maradona made himself the player Napoli could n't do without when he was in Italy . |
| 10 | But I could have been wrong and I had no means of checking my suspicions . |
| 11 | I could have been free if I were n't a coward . |
| 12 | I think that , had the girls been from today 's society the situation may have been different but I will assume they are from the same background as the boys were . |
| 13 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 14 | I have to confess that I saved up for a portable television before I saved up for a washing machine , but then my priorities may have been different if I had not had a laundrette opposite the front door . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | American research has been instructive and I survey this before moving to my own views . |
| 17 | It has n't always been easy but I 've always kept my self-respect , and I have n't let anybody take that away . |
| 18 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 19 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 20 | His eyes looked so unhappy that she could hardly bear it , but before she could say anything more he had plunged on : ‘ It must have been obvious and I 'm sorry for that too . |
| 21 | My sparrow had been lucky that I scared the cat off when I did . |
| 22 | That was the last time I used my LSI because I 've actually been ill since I got back — a touch of the Peruvian tummy-bug , which has put things out of the question ever since |
| 23 | She 's made me angry with her anger , and then turned it around so that I 'm eaten up with guilt because she 's been ill and I have n't noticed , and now she 's taking the blame on herself and making me feel worse than ever . |
| 24 | Well , I suppose that would have been fine if I could have gone along with it , but I was n't quite ready for that . |
| 25 | My discussions with the café owner have always been amiable and I have paid for car parking ( when asked ) and have gone about my business in an unobtrusive manner . |
| 26 | Do you know he ai n't been sick since I cut that me hair from round his mouth . |
| 27 | ‘ I am a proud man , Li Shai Tung , but not too proud to admit it when I have been wrong- and I was wrong about the threat from the Ping Tiao . |
| 28 | ‘ She has not been well and I do n't mind admitting now that we were very worried , ’ he said . |
| 29 | I have never been confident that I can split them with the naked eye , but 7 × 50 binoculars make it easy enough . |
| 30 | Initial feedback from staff has been encouraging and I hope that this will be reflected in the questionnaires which all staff in BBD have been asked to complete . |