Example sentences of "[adv] i 've [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner . |
| 2 | Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner . |
| 3 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 4 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 5 | Take me somewhere I 've never been before . |
| 6 | ‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’ |
| 7 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
| 8 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 9 | So I 've always been poor , and I have n't got any nice dresses ! |
| 10 | So I 've only been the once , |
| 11 | Or so I 've recently been led to believe . ’ |
| 12 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
| 13 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 14 | The week 's gone so quickly I 've just been sort of , you know . |
| 15 | Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night |
| 16 | She was leaning over talking to him and saying something sort of like I 've never been so embarrassed in my life ! |
| 17 | Now I 've never been on a camel before and these guys , I mean , they do n't wash ; just roll around in the sand . |
| 18 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
| 19 | There 's Park Road there , now I 've never been down there |
| 20 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
| 21 | Well I 've just been back , have n't been yet . |
| 22 | Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see . |
| 23 | So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ? |
| 24 | Well I 've only been from |
| 25 | ‘ Since then I 've hardly been able to see his hands uncovered , which makes me very sad . |
| 26 | And the closest I 've ever been to the slopes is flying over Switzerland . |
| 27 | So I told them what I would do , but once again I 've never been in the situation but this is what I 'll do , said as if they were me own parents make them as comfortable as I could while I 'll cleaned up and give them a bed bath or if they could shower , shower them and erm and get everything back to normal as quick as possible , fine , that were all fine she , and then as , as I got up from it they all said thanks a lot Joy it has been great you really have been great you 've made it easy , we 've got an easy day in front thanks to you , you know you 're bubbly and all this and then when she phoned me on the Sunday she said hello Joy it 's Sue here and I , I said will you let me know one way or the another cos I said I hate being left up in the air |
| 28 | And so you , you , you I had stepped up a bit in , in in rank , I 'm a but erm there was being , on the social side course being next to the Sir Robert Peel , when we went down there , it was quite handy although I 'm not a drinking man , I never have been , I 'll go and socialize and I 'll have half a pint or two halves but I 'd never I 've never been one to go out drinking . |
| 29 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |