Example sentences of "[conj] i 've be " in BNC.
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| 1 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 2 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 3 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 4 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ And where I 've been is none of your damned business . |
| 6 | Where I 've been involved with the marketing groups to bring advertising . |
| 7 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 8 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 9 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 10 | Well I like my mum and dad here ( adoptive parents ) 'cause I 've been with them for some years , but there again , I like my own father as well ... we still think of him and would like to go and visit him . |
| 11 | When climbing on rough rock I reverse the jacket to protect the Pertex layer from tearing ; although I 've been surprised just how robust the garment is , given a total weight of just 600g . |
| 12 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 13 | There are traps you can fall into if you do too much television — although I 've been on a lot since '89 , I do tend to turn most things down . |
| 14 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 15 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 16 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
| 17 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
| 18 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 19 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 20 | Do you realise , that I 've been soldiering longer than anything else since I was a schoolboy ? |
| 21 | It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’ |
| 22 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 23 | Or that I 've been involved in a murder . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 25 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 26 | I know that something new has happened , that I 've been forced to make a connection I 've never made before . |
| 27 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 28 | Gail , 25 , who slept with her gold medal round her neck over the weekend , said : ‘ I 've got to admit that I 've been back and forth through hell on the way to Barcelona . ’ |
| 29 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 30 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |