Example sentences of "and i [verb] been [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then .
2 ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years .
3 ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘
4 And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm .
5 Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds .
6 My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father .
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