Example sentences of "i [verb] have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when I arrived I wouldn't 've been surprised if my name had n't been on the list but it was there . |
| 2 | What w what was it like when you you first w w went over there , I mean having been here in in and then all of sudden finding yourself in France ? |
| 3 | … no inconsiderable sacrifice to put in the time and effort that this sort of work requires , particularly when , as I fear has been the case so far , it has to be pursued at rather a breakneck speed . |
| 4 | Er but er rather nice er buildings here , and er canopies , which I say have been completely er removed . |
| 5 | The File Manager obligingly scans the entire disk and lists all the files beginning with Q. I can see that the ones I want have been installed under D : \WINDOWS\QUOTE , and I can use the File Manager to look at them . |
| 6 | I appear to have been writing for years , and yet not one sentence has been completed . |
| 7 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 8 | But what I thought and what I believed had been moving further and further apart in the weeks since my father had died . |
| 9 | At that , some apprentices , whom I judged to have been well-primed and well-paid for their services , set up a feeble shout . |
| 10 | I hope these problems wo n't discourage your company from continuing to run the service , which I hope has been a success this year . |
| 11 | I happen to have been a keen supporter of the way of Margaret Thatcher 's attitude to Europe , highly sceptical . |
| 12 | ‘ I seem to have been here so often before , ’ Briant said heavily and moved wearily back to his chair . |
| 13 | Excuse me a sex , I 've just got to grab a tissue , I seem to have been ‘ dancin ’ sic too hard . |
| 14 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 15 | Yet so far I seem to have been treating nothing worse than chicken pox and ‘ flu . |
| 16 | And I seem to have been fairly successful in that I 've never neither I , nor Father Christmas , has ever been asked for what I would consider to be a greedy , outrageous present ! |
| 17 | I seem to have been blathering on and on . |
| 18 | I seem to have been given the freedom |
| 19 | ‘ I seem to have been a shock to a number of people . |
| 20 | I seem to have been bombarded by your curiosity right from the start . |
| 21 | I seem to have been here for ages . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Unfortunately ’ says the agent , ‘ I seem to have been outvoted . ’ |
| 23 | It is this tradition which I suspect has been handed down over the generations in particular families , but which is dying out . |
| 24 | At one of the effects of that delay I suspect has been the need for the supplementary estimate which is measured , er mentioned in part B. |
| 25 | The other glass , which I guessed had been the constable 's , he put in the sink . |
| 26 | I am delighted that we have been able to present Embassy with what I consider to have been our best tournament yet . |
| 27 | I had n't eaten since my snackette supper the night before and I was so hungry that I would have eaten almost anything , even a plate of my grandmother 's famously awful creamed ham and carrots , the only dish I know to have been inspired by vomit . |
| 28 | The boy I know has been brought up to want for nothing , and has been raised a staunch Catholic . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , let's say the James Worsdale I know has been dead that long , ’ he said apologetically . |
| 30 | Chairman of my all of the offices or er tremendous amount of work which has gone into the local report to the Committee , er but also to the tremendous amount of work which has been done behind the scenes which I know has been going on with er that is quite good for the officers erm looking at the budget er i in the line with what actually saying for them . |