Example sentences of "[noun] i 've been " in BNC.
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1 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
2 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |
3 | They may want security , er one case I 've been del dealing with they wanted the share certificates depositing by way of some security for instance . |
4 | you see , so yeah and er we used to have as I say er , well for instance I 've been up in the office . |
5 | That 's the excuse I 've been giving , and |
6 | Well , I 'll have to find a place to lay my cropped and weary head for the night , wo n't I. This is the bit I 've been trying not to think about . |
7 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
8 | about an hour I 've been out there . |
9 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
10 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
11 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
12 | Well of course I 've been saying for some time now , for some time , and I want to underline that , and I hope the government are listening that we 've had twenty thousand troops on our streets , we 've twelve thousand armed policemen on our streets , we have the strictest security laws in Western Europe , and none of these things have solved our problem . |
13 | I 've been round once , of course I 've been round once you pratt |
14 | Up our way , they all give you feedback , like you know , several branches in like , the North , every branch I 've been into , there 's always been positive feedback , and negative and positive . |
15 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
16 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
17 | ‘ Funny I 've never seen it before , the times I 've been in your Gran 's house , ’ he said . |
18 | In all the times I 've been down here , I have never heard that sound before . |
19 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
20 | This morning John Smith says he is saddened by John 's remarks , he thinks it will give some material to John Major , I 've got news for him , many times I 've been saddened when he 's said nowt to John Major when all the clangers he 's dropped . |
21 | Yeah , you know two times I 've been , and me eyes are going right mad . |
22 | he wo n't let them talk , it 's disgusting , I tell ya , you know , no end of times I 've been in there and it 's obvious we 're waiting for chips |
23 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
24 | People I have worked with I 've identified as having problems that I can see some sort solution to in terms , for instance , of hospital treatment erm at times I 've been unable to erm to do that because the Act is very difficult to work round erm and in retrospect I 'm very |
25 | Erm , yeah she is , but she 's doing , you know these calls I 've been receiving . |
26 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
27 | Not thousands , just four of them , each with two of these legs I 've been telling you about . |
28 | Well , to be fair , the A G M's I 've been to , they do influence some of |
29 | Just just as a matter of interest , Graham , I was looking at the er , the rates yesterday , cos I 've been paying my mortgage over ten ye , over the last eleven years , and erm , bearing in mind the premiums I 've been paying before my endowments would have been er , er , you 'd expect to be more recent , because I was er , young |
30 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |