Example sentences of "i 've [be] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 2 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 3 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 5 | Look I 've been holding Richard . |
| 6 | I buy everything from him but I 've got to buy another tumble dryer erm I 've been drying clothes off in the house and the three men and all them well two of them wearing work wear jeans and the next one that comes in will be wearing jeans , it 's no go I just can not dry stuff off in the house , I 've just got to have a tumble . |
| 7 | I 've been organising classes … ’ |
| 8 | I 've been buying bars and bars of that see . |
| 9 | Yes there is I 've been , yeah I 've been I 've been buying shares er Excon shares in a share p er a share purchase |
| 10 | I feel as if I 've been given knock-out drops . |
| 11 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been given permission to swim in the pool when the family 's not using it . |
| 13 | I do n't know if Craig has told you , but I 've been given authority to extend our maintenance contract with you for a further year , without going to tender . |
| 14 | For days I 've been telling Caliban that I do n't see why D and M and everyone else should be left in the dark about whether I still exist . |
| 15 | Heaven knows , I 've been telling people for years , and , strangely , it is n't entirely untrue . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 17 | I 've been trying mail order . |
| 18 | I 've been asked loads of questions . |
| 19 | I 've been stopped loads of times and had my bag searched |
| 20 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 21 | At last , seeing the impatient glint in his eyes , she drew a long breath and said , ‘ I 've been thinking things over — thinking very deeply — and I 've come to the conclusion that your idea of merging our two practices is , after all , the most sensible solution to our problem . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been thinking Mo . |
| 23 | so , anyway , she must of thought about this , so she called on Monday , and she said oh I 've been thinking Michael 'll need electric for the drill |
| 24 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 25 | I 've been getting attacks of giddiness and I 'm not sleeping well . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 27 | And er , I 've been learning flats and sharps and all that . |
| 28 | But it turned out to be an endless task and , as a result , for the last few years I 've been learning phrasings from all kinds of foreign instruments . |
| 29 | I ca n't spea cos I 've been learning German I ca n't remember it . |
| 30 | I 've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week . |