Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] have [been] " in BNC.

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1 I thought — ; I mean , I supposed it was you Aunt Emily was waiting for , but she sent me out , she thinks I have been very silly over the whole affair — ’
2 And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot .
3 You bolt on the tail and wings you 've been towing behind on a trailer , flip a couple of switches on the dashboard , and then find a strip of flat land to take off from .
4 Has we has been you is get is get and you to paint it .
5 Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler .
6 Erm , this whole area of learning theory is a very traditional area but it has it has been very influential actually very recently , despite being very ancient .
7 Of her own experience of parenthood she writes : ‘ For all its frustrations and heartaches it has been , so far , a good career ’ .
8 Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit .
9 He remembered the chapel of St John and wondered what lies he had been told there .
10 Carers ' own needs It has been identified that people have different capacities to undertake being a carer .
11 It says I 've been good at the doctor today .
12 She says Chris , that 's her in office , she 's told me that I 'm off the subsidy now , she says I 've been on it twelve week and er
13 he says I 've been to Wembley
14 he says I 've been talking to that wee feller and he was talking about the pub which got .
15 aha and he says I 've been to the nice wee man he says he remembers ah going round all the houses looking for somebody to do in Apple Street and he went and told what 's his name ?
16 then sh she says I 've been .
17 He says I have been flying for four years .
18 The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit
19 But the prosecution says she 'd been badly beaten around the head before she died .
20 Julie says she has been assured he wo n't have to serve the full sentence .
21 Leeds youth justice manager Anne Oliver , who is also chairperson of the Association of Youth Justice , says she has been getting mixed messages about the first seven months of the Criminal Justice Act .
22 My Lady Dedlock says she has been ‘ bored to death ’ .
23 The rape of virgins is a crime imputed by a woman to the man by whom she says she has been forcibly ravished against the king 's peace .
24 But local mum Carol Lambird says she has been locked in a wrangle with Durham County Council for the last two years after her son Christopher was diagnosed as dyslexic .
25 She apologizes for being thirty seconds late and says she 's been having her nails done .
26 A woman with leukaemia says she 's been sacked from her job as a secretary because of her illness .
27 She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds .
28 She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds .
29 Hello Claire says she 's been doing pie charts on your computer .
30 I said , Oh do n't bother I always I always get people ringing up saying so and so 's mother or father says or someone says you 've been teaching them and can you take me or can you take my son or daughter and it always works like that .
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