Example sentences of "i have [be] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 2 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 3 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 4 | She answered , ‘ If I had been told the true facts , my father , there could have been no doubt about that . ’ |
| 5 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 6 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 8 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 9 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been learning the ancient Japanese martial art of san tu dang for about 10 years now and that helps me keep my weight constant . |
| 11 | I 've n I 've been using the other keyboard all on the X T and I ca n't get used to this one yet . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been using the front entrance lately . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been fighting the inevitable for too long , darling . |
| 15 | I arrived on Sunday and I 've been revisiting the old places . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been saying the exact same thing with regard to this Mr Wrong she 's so darned keen on . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been playing the Modern Jazz Quartet 's records over and over again . |
| 18 | Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell . |
| 19 | I have been made the Cultural Counsellor of the Italian Embassy , for example . |
| 20 | In all the time I have been writing the bass analysis column , I can not remember receiving any requests for the very influential playing of John Paul Jones of Led Zeppelin , and now I get two in the same month . |
| 21 | During the past week I have been watching the Germanic guru , Ralf Dahrendorf , on the box , telling us Britishers just where we are going wrong . |
| 22 | Therefore , there must be value elsewhere and I have been studying the other prices . |
| 23 | I have been examining the Liberal Democrats ' environmental document called , ’ Costing the Earth ’ . |
| 24 | I have been told the Chinese have a simple inexpensive instrument to trace extra low frequencies . |
| 25 | I have been following the hon. Gentleman carefully . |