Example sentences of "[noun sg] i 've [be] " 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 | about an hour I 've been out there . |
| 8 | For almost half an hour I 've been trying to get them out , but it 's impossible . ’ |
| 9 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course I 've been watching you . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been round once , of course I 've been round once you pratt |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm growing mine at the moment for a part I 've been playing , which accounts for its condition . |
| 15 | ‘ Is your husband 's trip to Milan connected with this Japanese deal I 've been hearing about ? ’ he asked . |
| 16 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |
| 17 | The fame of mind I 've been in from the beginning , ’ he says , ‘ is a belief in the spirit : it moves me , it 's in my heart . |
| 18 | ‘ Maybe you really do have that fast , incisive mind I 've been hearing so much about lately ? ’ |
| 19 | Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view . |
| 20 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 21 | I 'm Andrew Panting , the Information Officer for the University , and for this first programme I 've been joined by Ted Nakhle and Lawrence Suss . |
| 22 | Well I 'm hoping that , that tape I 've been using when I go to Ian and Shaun 's , that er the noise of Rangers does nay it ma goes too loud , you know . |
| 23 | And now I have to interrupt the first bit of pleasure I 've been able to take in I do n't know how long and put you all to right . |
| 24 | There 's very little room for the qualitative work I 've been talking about : it it is there it tends to get tacked on to an existing project when the sociologist is brought in to provide expertise on survey design or interviewing or to use a standard measure of patient ‘ quality of life . ’ |
| 25 | Yes , either that , or it 's the work I 've been doing . |
| 26 | I want you and the company to find some way to get me out of this mess I 've been landed in . |
| 27 | What a fool I 've been . ’ |
| 28 | My God , what a fool I 've been ! ’ |
| 29 | That is , not the cat I 've been lately . |
| 30 | yes , I was supposed to be going the morning well up until ten o'clock off , to go and see the assembly because er the lady I 've been replacing is back , so that means we have somebody spare around , but we 've got two people off this week |