Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Have I been reduced in size ? |
| 32 | ‘ Only I been sufferin' 'orrible suspicions about endin' up gettin' me own throat cut . ’ |
| 33 | Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there 's an exact science . |
| 34 | This is where I been going to . |
| 35 | I can honestly say now I do not feel I have subsequently ever lost a race I would have won had I been allowed to use the whip . ’ |
| 36 | Had I been allowed to puddle around on my own , people today might curl their lips at Faldo 's approach . |
| 37 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 38 | I started off playing mid-field er and I was switched to full-back by Billy Bremner at Doncaster half way through this season , and I been playing full-back since like . |
| 39 | I been spending a lot of time with her these days . |
| 40 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 41 | Had I been running ? |
| 42 | I been coming down here watering most nights . ’ |
| 43 | What have I been saying ? |
| 44 | Had I been infected by my owl ? |
| 45 | ‘ I been having a little think , ’ said Ron Paget . |
| 46 | I been working here before some of 'em were born ! |
| 47 | It were bad where erm Have I been talking in that thing all time ? |
| 48 | Even more revealing , had I been asking the questions now ( the year of the miners ' strike ) , would have been the reaction to this one , suggested by Griffiths and Howson . |
| 49 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 50 | ‘ I am the mother of a spastic child but had I been told before his birth that my son would be handicapped I would have asked for an abortion . |
| 51 | Had I been told at his birth that he was not ‘ normal ’ I would probably have hoped he would have died before being taken home from hospital . |
| 52 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 53 | But even had I been told something of the nature of their relationship , I am not sure that I would have understood or believed , or felt betrayed . |
| 54 | How long had I been driving about ? |
| 55 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 56 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 57 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 58 | This should not suggest that my wife and I are cut from the American kind of Anglophilic chintz that may of you like to poke fun at . |
| 59 | Each day , when Tod and I are done with the Gazette , we take it back to the store . |
| 60 | ‘ I think that you and I are destined to continue this very special relationship whether we like it or not . ’ |