Example sentences of "[verb] been [conj] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's always been surrounded by people who think everything else he does is marvellous , but one of the points of our relationship has been that I 've always criticised his work , and for me those double portraits of the Seventies came perilously close to Photo-Realism . ’ |
| 2 | The cold of the night was deepening and I was weaker than I 'd been when I set out . |
| 3 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 4 | It it should have been because I put in . |
| 5 | the other day but yeah it must have been cos I have n't seen any papers since Monday how many thousands do n't pay on not paying their television licence . |
| 6 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 7 | I 've been cos I have n't been to the R A F club for ages there . |
| 8 | Lesser rorqual , pilot whales , Risso 's dolphins , killer whales and porpoises are all likely to be met with in Shetland waters and most of my close encounters have been while I have been drifting with the motor stopped . |
| 9 | Lord , you understand why I have been as I have . |
| 10 | Yeah , I have been cos I 've been bored really so all I do is study . |
| 11 | If I have been primarily expository hitherto ( and I have been because I believe Callinicos ' book to be the best on this subject that we have ) I will now begin to turn to criticism ; or at least to trying to ventilate that reservation which , faced by Callinicos , certainty , will not be stilled . |