Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i 've been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 2 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 3 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 4 | I help with a Sunday League side but I 've been advised not to play . |
| 5 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 6 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I 've seen another side to David Markham since I 've been working with him . ’ |
| 8 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 9 | Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ? |
| 10 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 11 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 12 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 13 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 14 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 15 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 16 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 17 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 18 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 19 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 20 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 21 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 22 | the er the lady that comes to the meetings cos I 've been going to them . |
| 23 | The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis . |
| 24 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 25 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 26 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 27 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 30 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |