Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 2 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 3 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 4 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And where I 've been is none of your damned business . |
| 6 | Where I 've been involved with the marketing groups to bring advertising . |
| 7 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 8 | I 've had before where I have been told waited and helped people finish their |
| 9 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 10 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 11 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 12 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 13 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 14 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 15 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 16 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 17 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 18 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
| 19 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
| 20 | Keifer Sutherland , son of Donald , managed to steer clear of drugs , ‘ although I have been known to let off steam occasionally , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Although I have been a member of the board for less than a year , and chairman but a few weeks , I believe I have now been accepted into the bosom of the Athletico family . |
| 22 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 23 | Although I have been there myself . |
| 24 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 25 | Although I have been a long time supporter . |
| 26 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 27 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 28 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
| 29 | It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’ |
| 30 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |