Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] i have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shows some talent , or so I 've been told . |
| 2 | ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’ |
| 3 | Or so I had been told . |
| 4 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 5 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
| 6 | and literally I 've been working |
| 7 | For I am writing this on Saturday evening , and already I have been blooded . |
| 8 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
| 9 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 10 | Various episodes in his life end in cliff-hangers , a la Neighbours and Dallas , and often I 've been asked whether a certain story line has advanced any further . |
| 11 | And today I 've been feeling down . |
| 12 | I 've had sickness , no I have n't had sickness , I 'm telling lies , I 've had diarrhoea and then I 've been constipated and then violent pains and terrible |
| 13 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 14 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 15 | But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I may not be of your persuasion but tonight I have been persuaded that the world is reaching a turning-point in its history and that the ancient biblical promise to your people is about to be redeemed . |
| 17 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 18 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 19 | But now I have been given |
| 20 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 21 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 22 | ‘ No , but then I 've been thinking about the amniocentesis . |
| 23 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 24 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |