Example sentences of "the [noun sg] i [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having given this example of structuring I perhaps need to make clear some of the terminology I have been using before looking at more examples . |
| 2 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 3 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
| 4 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
| 5 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 6 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 7 | It happened , however , that while I was at the College I had been approached by the Bristol University Board of Extra-Mural Studies , where a post was for the moment vacant organizing adult education work chiefly in Wiltshire . |
| 8 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 9 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 10 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 11 | During the review I had been to Switzerland where I had seen a compulsory occupational scheme successfully in operation . |
| 12 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 13 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 14 | Already , I felt , I could feel the benefit of the work I had been undertaking . |
| 15 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 16 | ‘ In The Home I 've been in , I do n't feel there is any authority over me at all . |
| 17 | Often , when I switched on the light to make sure that the dish was scraped clean , I was disgusted at the mess I had been eating . |
| 18 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 19 | Three mornings on the trot I 've been up there and I 've walked in the front door and I can hear him downstairs snoring , still in bed . |
| 20 | That is , not the cat I 've been lately . |
| 21 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 22 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 23 | And the question I 've been asking myself of this , is that erm , where did we start from . |
| 24 | yes , I was supposed to be going the morning well up until ten o'clock off , to go and see the assembly because er the lady I 've been replacing is back , so that means we have somebody spare around , but we 've got two people off this week |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , for the moment I 've been cut off . |
| 26 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 27 | That same agent blew up the room I had been in because I was getting too close . |
| 28 | Even from the outside I had been overwhelmed by the size of the place . |
| 29 | For two years previous to the war I had been painting ; before that I was a school master teaching drawing and painting . |
| 30 | Well Of course came the War and and er like for about twelve years like before the War I 'd been president of the Hosiery Finishers Association . |