Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 3 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 4 | No I 'm not , I do n't think I am gon na come down cos I 've been down so long anyway |
| 5 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 6 | ‘ So if I 'd been queer , what happened this morning would n't have ? ’ |
| 7 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 8 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 9 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 10 | And there was one just next to the door that must have come in while I had been lying there , unable to move . |
| 11 | I was shocked too by Batty 's departure especially since I have been watching again and again the Leeds championship video ‘ 91/'92 in the last few days . |
| 12 | ‘ Not long ; only since I 've been here . |
| 13 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 14 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 15 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 16 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And any waiting , any time lag is not my fault , it 's not cos I 've been slow in getting it , I 've already got it there , it 's all wrapped up it 's gift wrapped with your name on it ! |
| 19 | It was not until I had been in the camp some days that I learnt the full story of the past . |
| 20 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 21 | But now I think , just because I 've been to prison there 's nothing wrong with me . |
| 22 | ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’ |
| 23 | Just because I 've been in front of a camcorder ! |
| 24 | Anyway , I knew what she was going through since I had been obliged to have all my top teeth out just before the storms started because they ached so much . |
| 25 | ‘ Not since I 've been here , ’ Porter told him . |
| 26 | But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there . |
| 27 | I never stopped loving you , but somehow since I 've been abroad , and you 've been ‘ out in the world ’ , we seem to have struck a deeper note , and more powerful … |
| 28 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 29 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 30 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |