Example sentences of "[verb] i have [been] " in BNC.

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1 Ever since we met I 've been the target for veiled accusations and suspicions !
2 research that I realized I had been wrong .
3 There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had .
4 ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around !
5 You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’
6 I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’
7 What the hell do you think I 've been talkin' about the last few minutes ?
8 ‘ Do n't you think I 've been trying to believe that ? ’
9 He 's scored four in just five starts , and said : ‘ It 's been a good start but I still do n't think I 've been at my best . ’
10 ‘ Why the hell do you think I 've been holed up here since yesterday ?
11 M. What do you think I 've been these last two months ?
12 Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ?
13 People will think I 've been terribly extravagant and I sha n't be able to defend myself . ’
14 What d' you think I 've been thinking about all the time ?
15 ‘ Why do you think I 've been avoiding you today ?
16 I ca do n't think I 've been down here before have I ?
17 What do you think I 've been doing !
18 ‘ Ach , come on , you would think I had been at the whisky already .
19 The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’
20 They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’
21 I do n't think I have been fooled by artefacts , or overinterpreted my findings , though it is obvious even to me , let alone a critical outsider , that in fitting the data within a temporal cascade I have not formally proved all the necessary biochemical links ; some of my arguments have run dangerously close to the classical trap of assuming that post hoc implies propter hoc ; just because the phosphorylation step precedes the glycoprotein synthesis I can not automatically assume that the latter depends upon the former .
22 I do however think I have been able to help with the emotional problems of the artists here , especially the big dilemma of whether to have kids or not .
23 Erm I do n't think I have been down to that I think I 've sh erm wired the whole damn out of my mind because er it 's a long time since I heard such garbage in this chamber , it 's fortunate for us Chairman that Mr is n't a member of the Environment Committee because if that 's the kind of contribution that he 's prepared to make on these occasions we would could well do without it .
24 As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble .
25 In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically .
26 But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy .
27 He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ .
28 ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’
29 They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been .
30 Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out .
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