Example sentences of "[vb -s] [conj] i have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West ( Mr. Randall ) assumes that I have been sitting drinking cups of coffee and not talking to people about the issues . |
| 2 | If she discovers that I 've been here , I 'll be killed . ’ |
| 3 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 4 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 5 | He told the crowd : ‘ It seems like I 've been playing here forever — and you 've been watching me forever . |
| 6 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 7 | Darwinism destroys the presumption that a separate organism functions primarily to preserve itself ( as do simpler homeostatic systems which do not reproduce ) ; it shows me that even at the biological level my spontaneity only secondarily and partially serves myself , and invites the reflection that behaving consistently to my own advantage became conceivable only with the clarification of my viewpoint in contrast with others , which in turn implies that I have been assuming other viewpoints from the beginning of self-consciousness . |
| 8 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 9 | Clotilde will never marry me if she learns that I have been a … friend of Irene Adler . |
| 10 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |