Example sentences of "[verb] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 7 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 8 | Well , I , I , mean I have been in before and I did say last time we were n't very happy , . |
| 9 | 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 — ’ |
| 10 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 11 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 12 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 13 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 15 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 16 | ‘ O Lord , ’ he prayed earnestly , ‘ I know how wicked , how unworthy , how evil and wanting I have been and am and will be for ever . |
| 17 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 18 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 19 | I do n't feel I have been properly understood . |
| 20 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm surprised because I 'm aware that I have n't taken many wickets this season , although I do feel I have been bowling well , ’ said Foster . |
| 22 | For more weeks than I care to remember I have been working on a Panorama programme designed to look at the future of the Tory Party , even beyond Thatcherism . |
| 23 | Ever since I can remember I have been going on demonstrations . |
| 24 | I must go now , or my brother will guess I have been speaking to you . |
| 25 | ‘ Ah , I must confess I have been in this house before . |
| 26 | I hold the view very strongly — and I know I have been criticised for it — that when a government has not got great experience , is a minority government , it is essential if you can possibly support it that it should be able to speak with a strong voice to the countries of the world . |
| 27 | As you know I have been meeting every two weeks with all the staff in the Economic Development Team , and discussing with them each stage of the process . |
| 28 | I know I have been reduced to a babble of disconnected comments , which do n't really say much . |
| 29 | I know I have been but I ca n't think of one at the moment |
| 30 | And I suppose I have been resentful , all these months . |