Example sentences of "[noun pl] i [vb base] been " in BNC.
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| 31 | Over the last few months I have been working my way through the variation switches . |
| 32 | ‘ Many months I have been saving , ’ he said . |
| 33 | It seems to me to have been one of the greatest tragedies in the Province in the 27 months I have been Secretary of State . |
| 34 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 35 | OVER the summer months I have been attending a class to learn Irish sign language and it has given me a new understanding of what hearing people must feel when learning to talk to deaf people . |
| 36 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 37 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 38 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 39 | Since writing these words I have been assured by Manx Cat specialists that the animal 's troublesome genetic defects have now been largely eliminated by careful selective breeding without losing its uniquely tailless condition . |
| 40 | I mean , at last I will be able to try out all the French words I have been learning . |
| 41 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 42 | In fact in recent visits to schools I have been struck increasingly , not only by the ‘ over-age ’ children but by the considerable number of very young ones , conveniently parked in classrooms so that mothers could take employment , trade or visit . |
| 43 | I will concentrate , together with my wife , on areas I have been dealing in and know well , such as Expressionism , Viennese Art before 1914 , with Schiele and Klimt , history-making design and outstanding drawings and watercolours . |
| 44 | Thank you that the painful experiences I have been through are no surprise to you . |
| 45 | United Airlines and American Airlines I 've been told are n't really all that good to fly with , mate of ours went up to the airport to pick his parents up , they just got back from a holiday in and er they flew and a , on a seven hour journey , where ever it was they come from , they did n't have any food , no food , nothing , what they done is they , they , they 'd taken a container off , but they had n't put a new one on . |
| 46 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 47 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 48 | I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail . |
| 49 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 50 | ‘ For the past four weeks I 've been in the Middle East on business , and this place has been empty and locked up . ’ |
| 51 | For the 3 weeks I 've been there , there 's been shelling every night just a few metres from where we were . |
| 52 | Six weeks I 've been ill . |
| 53 | Over the past few weeks I have been dipping into the annual report — for last year — of the Medical Defence Union , an outfit that deals with legal claims against doctors for alleged incompetence , negligence and other failings . |
| 54 | OVER the past few weeks I have been attempting to assess the relative marketing merits of companies as diverse as theatre companies , electrical retailers and peat producers . |
| 55 | So I think we geologists should not be too bashful to theorise on the basis of purely geological evidence , and I can not avoid the conclusion that at least some of the enigmas I have been discussing may have an origin in the climate . |
| 56 | The American naturalist William T. Hornaday gives this excellent description of the reptile : ‘ Gharials are the smoothest of all the large crocodiles I have been privileged to handle . |
| 57 | The places I 've been and people I 've met have given me the confidence to carry on . |
| 58 | For a start , I will travel and go places I 've not seen , and return to places I 've been to but not really seen because of the tennis . |
| 59 | Over the last six weeks or so I 'll tell you the places I 've been and the people I 've seen in the National Health Service . |
| 60 | Places I 've been . |