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

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1 Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner .
2 Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner .
3 All right I 've just been making some notes here .
4 From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less .
5 I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before .
6 Take me somewhere I 've never been before .
7 ‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’
8 They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down .
9 Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though .
10 So I 've always been poor , and I have n't got any nice dresses !
11 So I 've only been the once ,
12 Or so I 've recently been led to believe . ’
13 Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey .
14 I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but
15 The week 's gone so quickly I 've just been sort of , you know .
16 Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night
17 She was leaning over talking to him and saying something sort of like I 've never been so embarrassed in my life !
18 I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility .
19 Now I 've never been on a camel before and these guys , I mean , they do n't wash ; just roll around in the sand .
20 Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays .
21 There 's Park Road there , now I 've never been down there
22 You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening .
23 Well I 've just been back , have n't been yet .
24 Oh aye Well I 've never been that way see .
25 So I said well I 've never been in the situation but I said if it , if it was , if I was in that situation I , asked to see the manager or person in charge , make an offer to pay for any damage that was done and if that did n't suffice then I would say well I am the care officer for a Mencap home and the only thing I can do is say will you er get in touch with my boss and it 'll have to be sorted out from Head Office and she said perfect , you could n't do anything better , then she give me all different things that we 've gone into the next day and the patient 's done everything down the bed , what would you do ?
26 Well I 've only been from
27 ‘ Since then I 've hardly been able to see his hands uncovered , which makes me very sad .
28 And the closest I 've ever been to the slopes is flying over Switzerland .
29 Anyway , so I appeared before a Judge , the only time when I 've really been , he was judging me .
30 But all the same , it was fun to telephone home from Huntingdon that evening and electrify the family by saying , ‘ You 'll never guess where I 've just been ! ’ and listen to their admiring and incredulous comments .
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