Example sentences of "[verb] i have [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 2 | People will think I 've been terribly extravagant and I sha n't be able to defend myself . ’ |
| 3 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 4 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 5 | with all those redundancies a couple of months ago , I thought that 'll be it , I mean I 've been there |
| 6 | 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 — ’ |
| 7 | Do you know I 've been so busy , I done that van this morning , I 've done my housework and two loads of washing been over Petes ' did I tell you ? |
| 8 | I like to get on with it at home , but when I 've toured I 've been so desperate to do well , so conscious of not getting out , that I become negative . |
| 9 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 10 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 11 | I do n't feel I have been properly understood . |
| 12 | Look I 've been there , I 've seen it got the here we are |
| 13 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Christina , I know I 've been here a year longer than you but I 'm sure you 've worked these things out for yourself by now . |
| 15 | ‘ I know I 've been here loads of times before , but … ’ |
| 16 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 17 | I know I 've been slow lately . |
| 18 | Sissinghurst or is it I know I 've been there I took a photograph of my son outside there holding the doors . |
| 19 | But you know I 've been terribly busy lately ! |
| 20 | After seeing the picture of Scafell Massif taken in evening sunshine from the summit of Yewbarrow , I could n't help wishing I 'd been there . |
| 21 | He thanked me too , saying I 'd been very fair and was paying him royally , but then he added , in that high-pitched voice of his : ‘ One thing though . |
| 22 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 23 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 24 | " I guess I 've been away . " |
| 25 | I guess I 've been very lucky . |
| 26 | In fact she talked so much and so often about it that I feel I have been there myself . ’ |
| 27 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report — I had lost my job and been kicked out of an occupation which I thoroughly enjoyed . |
| 28 | I felt I had been pretty severely punished by the DTI report . |
| 29 | And now that I 'd forced myself to take it all out of its cobwebby cupboard and look at it remorselessly from start to finish , I knew I had been instinctively wise not to do it before . |
| 30 | I think I 've been sadistically grouped ! |