Example sentences of "[noun] i 've [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 2 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
| 3 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 4 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 5 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 7 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 8 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
| 9 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 10 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 11 | This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped . |
| 12 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 13 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
| 14 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 15 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
| 16 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
| 17 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
| 19 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 20 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
| 21 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 22 | ‘ For nearly two months I 've been counting the days until I would see you again . |
| 23 | For the past three months I 've been trying to buy some SIMMS for my Mesh 386SX . |
| 24 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Same goes for about half the words I 've been learning from that little minx . |
| 28 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 29 | Davidson Davidson kind of claims this in semantics in natural languages which I suggested that you read , but Davidson puts the claim the other way round , that is there 's no more syntax than that structure needs in semantics and that 's just false , that 's just false because you 're not going to account for all the data I 've been talking about , about verb phrases . |
| 30 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |