Example sentences of "i [vb base] been [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rivers , I 've been away visiting friends , you know . |
| 2 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 3 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 4 | I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down . |
| 5 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 7 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official . |
| 9 | Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
| 12 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 13 | I 've been too busy auditioning . |
| 14 | I 've been there two years now . |
| 15 | I 've been there six months now . |
| 16 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 17 | I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body . |
| 18 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 19 | I feel just as guilty because I have been here five Sundays and not come to church on any of them . |
| 20 | ‘ I know this because I have been here several times when I was younger . |
| 21 | Vienna Dear Fräulein , Excuse my delay in replying — I have been very busy marking examinations , etc . |
| 22 | ‘ I have been around certain bands and been in bands and I 've never actually seen a groupie . |
| 23 | I have been there many times and had many unshakeable criticisms , which now have , of course , been shaken . ’ |
| 24 | I have been there many times , both for business and for pleasure . ’ |
| 25 | I have been there three times , but each time they say I must go back to the Home Office and try to get my daughter a visa for longer than a six months ' stay in Britain ; otherwise she can not be admitted to school . |
| 26 | ‘ When I think back , knowing what I know now — and I have been so many places , and looked into the windows of other people 's lives , and I have seen so much — I still ca n't say for sure what Gittel really wanted . |