Example sentences of "i have [be] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 2 | and it being full of , of animals , most of them nasty animals , that would frighten you , like snakes and squirrels , I do n't know why squirrels , and , and like I had a picture in my mind , I ca n't remember whether it was the swimming baths I 'd been to , or whatever , like you know how they , quite often they have little ramps , or maybe they do n't , but the ones I 'd been to had ramps , stairs going up to them or whatever , |
| 3 | She wanted me to be independent and strong , the ‘ successful ’ person I 'd been before having children , so that she could be free to do this . |
| 4 | The weddings I had been to had been like that , quite different from the wedding parties in the villages along the Nile : a deafening noise of drums and flutes , bright hot colours and people saying words I could n't understand . |
| 5 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 6 | In fact , I 've been considering buying one . ’ |
| 7 | Because I 've been to catering things |
| 8 | But I saw , I went into town yesterday , have n't been into town and I saw er , I 'm just going up past the job centre I had to go to council about me money and I thought well I suppose I ought to make an effort and look in the job centre cos I , I ai n't done because I 've been in catering all the while |
| 9 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |
| 10 | " I have been considering finding you a tutor in another European language , " her mother continued . |
| 11 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |
| 12 | Responding to calls by GATT 's Director-General Arthur Dunkel for greater flexibility , the EC Agriculture Commissioner Ray MacSharry said on Dec. 3 that " the only flexibility I have is in explaining in detail the impact which the [ 30 per cent ] reductions in internal supports will have on our export restitutions and market access " . |