Example sentences of "i [vb base] [adv] been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 2 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been telling the captain . |
| 6 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 7 | ‘ I 've just been showing the insurance gentleman where the bells are kept , Mr Caretaker . |
| 8 | I 've just been doing the wrong question . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just been told the same . |
| 10 | I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility . |
| 11 | She rolled her shirt-sleeves and crouched on the platform shouting back , above the noise of the engine and Marley , ‘ I 've just been checking the records . |
| 12 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 13 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 14 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 15 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 16 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |
| 17 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 18 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 19 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 20 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 21 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 22 | I have also been exploring the Bit Knitter and the range of design options offered by Deluxe Paint , which is a very powerful graphics package . |
| 23 | I have also been writing an evening class programme which a colleague and I hope to get some funding towards from the local enterprise culture . |
| 24 | I have also been told the same story time and time again . |
| 25 | ‘ I have just been given a flower — the second in two weeks ’ , he told readers in the birthday issue column . |
| 26 | ‘ I have been called many things by my political opponents , but I have just been given the kiss of death . ’ |
| 27 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |
| 28 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 29 | ‘ But , ’ she had said suddenly , ‘ I have only been ordering a dozen geranium plants . ’ |
| 30 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |