Example sentences of "[verb] i [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 32 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 33 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 34 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 35 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 36 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 37 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
| 38 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 39 | I I mean I mean I 've been up since half past three this morning , |
| 40 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 41 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 42 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 43 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 44 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 45 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 46 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 47 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 48 | It 's stupid , I mean I 've been a driving instructor seventeen year , and I 'm not allowed to teach over here . |
| 49 | with all those redundancies a couple of months ago , I thought that 'll be it , I mean I 've been there |
| 50 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 51 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 52 | I mean I 've been in quite a bad mood this week actually but it 's really , like you know standing up for myself cos anyone that 's rude to me now gets it right back in their face . |
| 53 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 54 | I mean I think been up |
| 55 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 56 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 57 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 58 | I thought — ; I mean , I supposed it was you Aunt Emily was waiting for , but she sent me out , she thinks I have been very silly over the whole affair — ’ |
| 59 | And she 's saying , what the heck are doing outside the cinema , he goes I 've been invited to come with you you lot . |
| 60 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |