Example sentences of "[coord] i 've been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 2 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 3 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 4 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 5 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 6 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 7 | We have been running an experiment in our laboratories , which erm , employs about eighteen hundred people , and I 've been paying a sum of money , so that they can have anybody with a problem in the laboratories , can have independent counselling , er , and it seems to me , I 've been lo reviewing it , measurement again , we 've just been running it for a year , and I 've been interested to see the types of problem they 've been taking outside . |
| 8 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 9 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 10 | , she said he must not strain , and I 've been petrified |
| 11 | I never went to the extremes with heroin , but I was addicted to valium for seven years erm and I 've been clean from valium for four months erm through a drug programme in Brenda House |
| 12 | I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life . |
| 13 | It was n't er , it was n't good to leave them about , you know what I mean and er oh er yes it 's been very important , if I might say so , certain things as I 've had been called upon to do and I 've been happy and proud to do it . |
| 14 | God almighty … all these years , and I 've been blind to what 's been going on right under my nose . ’ |
| 15 | But er , also i I 'm currently compl er getting together the records of my old company that go back to eighteen seventy-nine , and I 've been instrumental in getting one or two of the governing bodies to get their records in . |
| 16 | And you 've retreated further and further into it , and I 've been jealous . |
| 17 | We crashed … and I 've been ill , or I 've lost my memory or something . |
| 18 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 19 | He 's given them something else back for their money , and I 've been glad to be part of it . |
| 20 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 21 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 22 | Despite the passion in Glasgow he did not have to show his yellow card once as Rangers won 2-1 and Wilkinson said : ‘ It 's always important to have a good referee , but I 've been pleased with the standard of refereeing this season . ’ |
| 23 | Eddery 's first success was Mrs Hauksbee , but he admitted : ‘ To be honest I do n't remember anything about that first one , but I 've been lucky to ride lots of winners in good races here . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But I 've been amazed by how much the girls love Graham and care for him . |
| 25 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 26 | But I 've been stuck here for ages . |
| 27 | I usually empty them but I 've been busy . |
| 28 | Erm but I 've been this is I 've been progressively pricing this account . |
| 29 | We 're at a loose end , Cynthie and me — I 'm up at Trinity , you know , but I 've been ill — ha ha ! — and have to stay down this term . |
| 30 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |