Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 've been " 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 | It 's only as you begin to come out of the Ketamine state that you begin to appreciate where you are or where you 've been . |
8 | Are you really constantly reassessing where you 've been ? |
9 | ‘ Is that where you 've been ? |
10 | ‘ By the looks of it , ’ she said , ‘ they have n't been feeding you any too well , where you 've been . |
11 | You 've got all red eyes there where you 've been crying . |
12 | like it , now but it 's alright where you 've been but it belongs to someone else does n't it ? |
13 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
14 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
15 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
16 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
17 | Where where they 've been bombing it |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . ’ |
23 | 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 . |
24 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
25 | What , what time erm although I 've been to San Franciso , I 've never worked out what time the evening news is there . |
26 | ‘ But I was so ready to become a mother , and I 'm happy and more confident than I 've been before . |
27 | ‘ I 've had no problem recruiting — I 've had far more offers than I 've been able to use . |
28 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
29 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
30 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |