Example sentences of "[subord] i have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 2 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 4 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 5 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 6 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 7 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 8 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |