Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] be " in BNC.
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1 | It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version . |
2 | ‘ In my wildest dreams the most I expected was to come on and get maybe a quarter of an hour . |
3 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
4 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
5 | I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen . |
6 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
7 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
8 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
9 | When I arrive somewhere I have been in a previous life , the ground greets me . |
10 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
11 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
12 | The ones that have done well in publishing terms quite rightly I think are those who have pl been plainly written by the person concerned , above all Dennis Healey and also Roy Jenkins . |
13 | Naturally I had been invited . |
14 | If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ . |
15 | ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’ |
16 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
17 | If only I had been less impatient and tried to go last . |
18 | But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem . |
19 | He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right . |
20 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
21 | Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the . |
22 | Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’ |
23 | But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’ |
24 | But perhaps I 've been wrong . |
25 | ‘ Necromancy , ’ he said , lowering his voice , ‘ Do you know , I never believed in that hoary old tale about necromancy sucking all the goodness and all the warmth from everything , but perhaps I 've been wrong . |
26 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him , after all ! |
27 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
28 | ‘ Perhaps I 've been a little obtuse , Fran . ’ |
29 | Perhaps I 've been wrong about him . ’ |
30 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |