Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 2 | Admit that I 've been on ‘ Top Ten ’ ; 5 . |
| 3 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 4 | ‘ But now that I 've been on a regular contract at Brookside for the last two years I can afford a season ticket in the stand ! ’ |
| 5 | Oh I said , yes she said , I like going on a boat , she said not that I 've been on one she said she 's never been on a boat across |
| 6 | Within a week , I received a duplicated form to fill in stating all my details and demanding proof that I had been on that flight . |
| 7 | My appearance showed that I had been on the surface — and the officials were kind enough to put some healants on my ( superficial ) burns while they sent mandroids to check my story . |
| 8 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 9 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 10 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 11 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 12 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 13 | A week earlier Steve and I had been on our way to the summit of Ultar with a pair of 150 foot ropes . |
| 14 | John Cocks and I have been on ahead to check things out . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 16 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 17 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 18 | If I had been on my own I probably would not have done it . ’ |
| 19 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 20 | I should have called round sooner but I 've been on holiday and only returned yesterday to hear the news . |
| 21 | But I 've been on an immense number of statutory instruments upstairs er and everybody says they 're greatly needed , they usually say they 're greatly needed because they want to go out in three or four minutes and ten thirty comes and ten thirty five they 're out . |
| 22 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 23 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 24 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 26 | Since I 've been on this course , I 've been on the bus a few times . |
| 27 | I have managed to apply it at least once a year since I 've been on the Bench . |
| 28 | Ever since I 've been on board . |
| 29 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 30 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |