Example sentences of "[adv] i have [be] " in BNC.

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1 It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version .
2 But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time …
3 But mostly I 've been working in television . ’
4 I said that 's fuck all right I 've been down the canteen .
5 Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable .
6 er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times
7 When I arrive somewhere I have been in a previous life , the ground greets me .
8 We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters .
9 I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work .
10 Naturally I had been invited .
11 If only I 'd been 10 years of age again , I 'd have loved the ‘ Pirates Club ’ .
12 ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’
13 Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different .
14 If only I had been less impatient and tried to go last .
15 But if only I had been right , if only it were just Kinnock , or for that matter a couple of remediable policies or the voting system , that were the problem .
16 He went on for a long time — we had such energy , then , in our quarrels — and sank deeper and deeper into what was really absurdity , saying that it was all his fault , he had been a lousy husband , too absorbed in his job to notice I was bored and fretting because I was ‘ wasting my education ’ , and that if only I had been ‘ straight ’ with him , we could have done something to put this right .
17 Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! "
18 Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’
19 But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’
20 But perhaps I 've been wrong .
21 ‘ Necromancy , ’ he said , lowering his voice , ‘ Do you know , I never believed in that hoary old tale about necromancy sucking all the goodness and all the warmth from everything , but perhaps I 've been wrong .
22 Perhaps I 've been wrong about him , after all !
23 Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes .
24 Perhaps I 've been a little obtuse , Fran . ’
25 Perhaps I 've been wrong about him . ’
26 It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course .
27 Perhaps I had been too forward , I thought , taken too much for granted .
28 Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress .
29 Perhaps I have been bored , without realising it . ’
30 " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied .
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