Example sentences of "[verb] i 've [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Why the hell do you think I 've been holed up here since yesterday ? |
| 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 | That 's right yes , as I say I 've been left back and I won very comfortable , but in the middle I 'm a lot more comfortable . |
| 4 | I hope I 've been given I hope I be the temporary staff but , those homes are being refurbished , there are no vacant beds in those homes because they are being refurbished . |
| 5 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 6 | ‘ My lord sheriff , reverend gentlemen , ’ said the earl , ‘ you come very aptly , if Robin has reported your errand rightly , for I confess I 've been tempted to lift the lid on whatever it is they 've brought me from Ullesthorpe . |
| 7 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 8 | Oh I know I 've been cheated ! |
| 9 | I almost feel I 've been sent here so they can teach me a lesson about life . |
| 10 | I still feel I 've been deprived of a natural birth . |
| 11 | I feel I 've been robbed , all along the line I feel I 've been robbed . |
| 12 | I feel I 've been robbed , all along the line I feel I 've been robbed . |
| 13 | Having dared , with one or two others , to open the door , I feel I 've been trampled in the rush and I 'm now standing up and waving a little flag saying , ‘ No , no , this is where we should be . ' |
| 14 | At last he said , with a helpless shrug , ‘ I feel I 've been let out of prison . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I feel I 've been taken for a fool . ’ |
| 16 | All of a sudden she said ‘ I think I 've been shot ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ I think I 've been hit . ’ |
| 18 | I think I 've been given it er some good cause rather than |
| 19 | So I said I know what he 's like , comes back and he turns up he says we 're just off now , I said oh you 've come back then I thought you were a bit rude just storming out of the funeral and not saying cheerio to everyone , he said I 've been insulted long enough by your family , I would n't be , I was n't prepared to be insulted any more |
| 20 | Mm , cos mum had Reverend come round , you see cos dad were n't , none of us were religious least of all dad , he could n't do none of it , so we said to , we did n't , we did n't know what vicar to choose cos none of us go to church so me mum said dad used to go to the church where me sister got married to the little Derby and Jones twice a week and Reverend is always there so mum said we 'll have him , dad got on well with him , he liked him , he knew dad , anyway he come round to see mum and I were n't there cos I had to go and sign on , I bloody wished I had been , anyway she said , she told him all about dad and she said I want you tell everybody how brave he was in the war and what a good father he were and a good provider and how he lived for his grandchildren and so on and so on , she said I do n't want no hymns I just want his own organ music all through the service and nothing else and just some , do a couple of prayers , she , so he said right the Lords Prayer will be fine that 'll be nice , well he never said nothing , he said I did n't know John but he said I 've been told he was a good man , he worked in a hospital , which he did , but I mean you 're only like an engineer we were n't really emphasising on that and that was all he said , he played a bit of the organ music before we went in , a bit as we come out and there was about eight bloody prayers and the songs and everything read out and made us sing a hymn ever so disappointed , hardly said anything , hardly play , played his music , no , I was well disappointed about that |
| 21 | ‘ I admit I 've been spoilt . |
| 22 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 23 | And , faith , since we married I 've been pressed into service as one more brother to him , a father , too , since his own father died when the boy was barely thirteen . |
| 24 | Just came in to say I 've been summoned to the presence . |
| 25 | And so I 've tried to open it up er rather wider and w what I 've I 've I 've been put in touch with a a thing called the independent schools , design and technology association , which covers design and technology studies in all independent schools . |
| 26 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 27 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |