Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i have been " in BNC.

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1 The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching .
2 I find it very difficult to dwell on these serious — even gloomy — thoughts when the sun is shining , the winds light and I have been asked to take a party of visitors out for a boat trip .
3 I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines .
4 Yeah I , I er thought about self defence but I keep thinking about things like that 's fine but if someone has a knife or a gun , the one might of self defence that I have been trained on or taught in can possibly help and I ca n't really see it as being very very helpful because
5 The passage could be read as ‘ this is not my ‘ Histoire de l'oeil ’ , but a male story that I have been subjected to ’ , or as ‘ this is not ‘ L'Histoire de l'oeil ’ but my story of the eye which is not a his-story but a hystery , i.e. a female story ’ .
6 A fortnight later , W. & R. Chambers placed an advertisement in the Edinburgh Evening Co it rant ( the first of its kind that I have been able to find in the local press ) , reading : " Printing : wanted : young women of good education and character , to act as compositors " .
7 Erm I have as I say one other if you like self-employed business opportunity that I have been pursuing erm which erm I shall know after Tuesday of next week .
8 ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects .
9 However , I have had occasion recently to visit the Church Road offices of the Environmental Health and Building Control sections of the Council and I have been appalled to see the conditions in which these people have to work .
10 It has been passed round the members of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council and I have been asked to let you know that they have no objections to this development .
11 Mr Murray replied , ‘ The Chairman and the Executive Board are backing this campaign and I have been given the ‘ teeth to police ’ the changeover and to deal with transgressors . ’
12 There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile .
13 But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again .
14 ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years .
15 THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market .
16 That confirms the point that I have been making to the House for some time about the international slow-down and international difficulties .
17 In reply to the hon. Gentleman 's comment about the Government 's policy since 1985 , I should make the point that I have been Secretary of State for two and a half years of that period .
18 And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend .
19 I keep rehearsing that low brace that I have been thinking about ever since we set a date for our attempt .
20 I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges .
21 These passages I have already referred to as being extremely indicative of the wonderful girl that Anna Jane was before her accident and I have been very much in mind in the earlier part of my judgement .
22 He has decreed you are too old and senile for your post and I have been sent to replace you ! ’
23 Odilo and I have been airing the new apartment until it is heavy with her smell .
24 Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’
25 London is miserable , rain and boredom and I have been drinking steadily in an attempt to instil some gaiety into my apathetic mind …
26 Newley and I have been bidding for the same things for years . ’
27 This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’
28 The macro lens cost more then the camera body but I have been very happy with it , especially since the lens functions as a normal lens as well .
29 I am to be dominated by the truth because I have been made a Christian by the operation of the Holy Spirit within .
30 As to the other case that I want to say a word about , I have to confess now to beating a drum that I have been beating with varying success for a number of years .
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