Example sentences of "and [adv] i have [been] " in BNC.
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1 | I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design ! |
2 | and literally I 've been working |
3 | For I am writing this on Saturday evening , and already I have been blooded . |
4 | It is twenty-two years since I read that letter , first published in Warnie 's selection of his brother 's correspondence , and on and off I have been thinking it over . |
5 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
6 | I never had any money erm that would help me to get off benefit , I was caught in the benefit trap and now I 've been able to get a part time job , my husba ex-husband 's paying a reasonable amount and my children are better off . |
7 | I usually have to come in seven o'clock , that 's how I did it and now I 've been over here sort of mucks the whole system so I 've got a driving lesson tomorrow night , I ca n't cancel that |
8 | And now I have been responsible for getting this man hanged . |
9 | Various episodes in his life end in cliff-hangers , a la Neighbours and Dallas , and often I 've been asked whether a certain story line has advanced any further . |
10 | ‘ Then I came here , and here I have been ever since , wondering often if it would have been better if that first Man had never found me . ’ |
11 | And today I 've been feeling down . |
12 | this year and if Russell done that to me now I feel embarrassed in front of my mother , now , and then I 've been married |
13 | I 've had sickness , no I have n't had sickness , I 'm telling lies , I 've had diarrhoea and then I 've been constipated and then violent pains and terrible |
14 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
15 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
16 | and yet I 've been , in theory I do n't actually manage them . |
17 | And yet I 've been as guilty as anybody else in saying , Oh they wo n't wan na come in this medical practice booklet what will they gain from it ? |