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

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1 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
2 When I arrive somewhere I have been in a previous life , the ground greets me .
3 Anyway after about a week , all men as been worked in the pits , By the way I 'd been down I 'd been to the .
4 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 .
5 So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know .
6 I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to .
7 I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't
8 So I 've been to Rome and places like that .
9 tunnel , you know , so I 've been through there
10 So I 've been in touch with Brian again erm and I said , ca n't you make sure that your blokes can do it in a day .
11 I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned .
12 Yet every child care establishment I have worked in I have been of benefit to children , especially boys , who have had insufficient experience of a positive role model .
13 ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’
14 However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard .
15 Whenever I had been in London I had visited the Natural History Museum and Rowland Ward 's taxidermist shop in Piccadilly , where there was always a fascinating collection of heads , skins and mounted specimens .
16 ‘ Too often I 've been at home practising with a tournament still going on .
17 All Blacks hero Grant Fox said : ‘ It 's not often I have been in a situation where I have had to kick a penalty to win the game .
18 So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes .
19 By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years .
20 Then , stretching a point , he declared : ‘ Now I 've been through it all , I have to admit I had a ball . ’
21 I usually have to come in seven o'clock , that 's how I did it and now I 've been over here sort of mucks the whole system so I 've got a driving lesson tomorrow night , I ca n't cancel that
22 Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days .
23 Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk .
24 Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before .
25 I 've well I 've been to er
26 to his own committee , to his own he would actually say well I 've been to er lead them into having a revolution , to open their eyes and then to motivate them erm now he 's not saying that , he 's saying that
27 Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group !
28 Well I 've been on them Diodides for six year now .
29 Well I 've been on a ship and I 'm not very well !
30 Well I 've been in the Daily Mail 's office , presumably much the same .
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