Example sentences of "[conj] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen . |
| 3 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 4 | There were two mortar explosions over by the road , then all was fairly quiet except for the sound of firing away in the distance at the other end of the village , where I had been earlier on in the evening . |
| 5 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 6 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 7 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 8 | Between Belturbet and Cavan Town ( where I had been before ) , Lough Erne fragmented into a series of lakes , with strange names such as Lough Parisee . |
| 9 | In consulted the ladies again , and was told that these nightmares were caused by an incarnation in Ancient Greece where I had been sacrificed to the Sun God . |
| 10 | I made my way to a cottage near the church , where I had been told I could expect a night 's lodging . |
| 11 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 12 | It was getting dark and the wind had freshened , the rain gusting through the length of the shed so I decided that it was time to pack up and head for the nearest hospitable pub where I had been told I would be able to get a good meal of hot pie and peas . |
| 13 | My heart cried out to it , but when I approached it , it summoned up the last dregs of its strength and paddled frantically away to the middle of the lake , where I had been instructed never to go . |
| 14 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 15 | In 1980 , coming back from a hospital in the States where I had been told that I ought to have an operation ( interestingly on my throat — it was as though all the tension caused by what I could not say was caught up there ) , I saw that I had to be free of this . |
| 16 | I told my mother where I had been without explanation as to why I had chosen not to go to our own church , and she said nothing . |
| 17 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 18 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 19 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 22 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ And where I 've been is none of your damned business . |
| 24 | Where I 've been involved with the marketing groups to bring advertising . |
| 25 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 26 | I 've had before where I have been told waited and helped people finish their |
| 27 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |