Example sentences of "i 've [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've been wondering , now it seems , well , you 're leaving , why did you turn Socialist ? |
| 32 | D'ye know Steve , I 've been thinking . |
| 33 | For some time it seems I 've been talking to myself . |
| 34 | ‘ I 've been to something like two dozen breweries in Belgium . |
| 35 | I 've been farming for the last 70 years and never seen anything like it . ’ |
| 36 | This month I 've been inundated with more questions about dog foods , and feeding in general . |
| 37 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 38 | ‘ I 've been a Lions fan for about 15 years and it 's great to see the look on the tourists ’ faces when I walk around Bangkok in my ‘ No One Likes Us We Do n't Care ’ T-shirt , ’ wrote Mr Barrett . |
| 39 | I 've been told he paid the widow money . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've been involved in a few of these things but I 've never seen anyone bring it up to the level he did — he turned it up a few notches . ’ |
| 41 | I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years . |
| 42 | But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’ |
| 43 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 44 | I said all this to Alison , and I 've been saying it to her ever since , and , back in London , I 've been saying it to anyone else who 'll listen . |
| 45 | On the other hand , I 've been as happy as a turkey in January , and all because of a story I spotted in a medical magazine , stating that regular lashings of oily fish cut sharply your chances of having a heart attack . |
| 46 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 47 | She turns around , comes to us , and utters the magic words ‘ I 've been raped ’ . |
| 48 | I 've been involved in community projects and I can say I enjoy going into schools , but at the end of the day there will always need to be the regulated type of policing of crime and violence . |
| 49 | Like , I know I 've been lucky . |
| 50 | But after the initial blisters and a bit of breaking in , I 've been fairly impressed with these boots . |
| 51 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 53 | So I feel a terrific relief and release that in the latter part of my business life I 've been really able to make things happen at a considerable speed . |
| 54 | I 've been happily married to the same woman for fifty-odd years . |
| 55 | I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do . |
| 56 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 57 | I suppose I 've been lucky with my training , having been an engineer . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've been knocking for ages and all ye do is laugh up at me . ’ |
| 59 | Mind you , I 've been keeping up the ice dance so all the canals are frozen and he ca n't get a match to fish , ’ joked Dave , who runs Midlands Angling Products . |
| 60 | Self-employed John , 48 , from Dublin said : ‘ I 've been in the international scene for the past few years . |