Example sentences of "i [vb base] be [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in . |
2 | Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps |
3 | I like being in with my family . |
4 | He said I like being in with me boys . |
5 | Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow . |
6 | ‘ Because I find being out with you useful . |
7 | Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves . |
8 | We got a cold gust of er icy winds when that I think was out in blossom then there would n't be many conkers . |
9 | I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time . |
10 | I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’ |
11 | Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’ |
12 | ‘ I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says . |
13 | Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area . |
14 | What that basically means , wherever that happens anywhere else in the country , you go to South Wales , you go to West Lothian , places like that I 've been up to West Lothian , all services are reduced when your main industry 's removed from an area . |
15 | I 've been up to church . |
16 | See she , she came around cos erm I 've been up to her , her friends place to and give him a bit of a telling off like and that and erm she came to John 's house and I said , why are calling ? |
17 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
18 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
19 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
20 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
21 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
22 | I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’ |
23 | I 've been up since six . ’ |
24 | I 've been up since half past seven . |
25 | I 've been up since quarter to five . |
26 | No , he 'll be out went out at ten to seven but over a sort of I 've been up since seven , I 've not really sat down all day . |
27 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
28 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
29 | No , no I 've never been down and er they 've always been full of water whenever I 've been up around there . |
30 | Since I 've been over in England I 've bought a lot of clothes that I 'd probably never even consider wearing in Australia . |