Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Perhaps I have been bored , without realising it . ’ |
| 32 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 33 | Perhaps , I only say perhaps , I promise nothing , ’ he said , throwing his purse carelessly from one hand to another , ‘ perhaps I have been told to give you a present when you lose your apprentice . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ Perhaps I have been less civil than you would have reason to expect . ’ |
| 35 | Perhaps I have been a litle obtuse . |
| 36 | ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’ |
| 37 | Probably the only thing is obviously I 've been there a while now so any previous employment and the people that were there are n't there any longer . |
| 38 | Or so I had been told . |
| 39 | So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years . |
| 40 | So I had been right about that . |
| 41 | Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down . |
| 42 | She shows some talent , or so I 've been told . |
| 43 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 44 | I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to . |
| 45 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 46 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 47 | So I 've been biding my time . |
| 48 | ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’ |
| 49 | and you put the cluster of wool in it and pull it back and it 's like little bobbles of wool and er I 've got a beige and a brown I 've done it with it will look nice you know , it will come right here , it 's a beautiful rug , quite nice , so I 've been busy and I make coat hangers |
| 50 | So I 've been in touch with Brian again erm and I said , ca n't you make sure that your blokes can do it in a day . |
| 51 | So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries . |
| 52 | Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about . |
| 53 | It 's just the way they roll the curler on so I 've been told but erm whether it 's simple as that or not I do n't know . |
| 54 | Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't |
| 55 | tunnel , you know , so I 've been through there |
| 56 | So I 've been . |
| 57 | We 've gone back quickly so I 've been informed that build that 's definite starting on the twentieth of March . |
| 58 | So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know . |
| 59 | I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't |
| 60 | So I 've been to Rome and places like that . |