Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [subord] i have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 2 | And there was one just next to the door that must have come in while I had been lying there , unable to move . |
| 3 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 4 | I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen . |
| 5 | " I had been off school since before my mum found out as I had been sick with gastric " flu . |
| 6 | Anyway , I knew what she was going through since I had been obliged to have all my top teeth out just before the storms started because they ached so much . |
| 7 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 8 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 9 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 10 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |