Example sentences of "[vb base] that i have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 2 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 3 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 4 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 5 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Never mind that I 've been tricked , deceived into coming all the way down here ! |
| 7 | I admit that I have been known to curse on occasion and I often talk to my machine telling it ‘ You will not beat me so you 'd better start behaving ! ’ |
| 8 | Well , I agreed not to speak more than half an hour , but I see that I have been speaking for a little longer than forty-five minutes . |