Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] i 've [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 2 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 3 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 4 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 5 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've got broad shoulders and I 've been through it as a player . |
| 7 | I help with a Sunday League side but I 've been advised not to play . |
| 8 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 9 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 10 | No , do not change that lovely , almost dreamy life we had in Joh'burg — I have n't been to any real parties since I 've been here — had no fun , but even so , I have lost the desire for them . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose I 've seen another side to David Markham since I 've been working with him . ’ |
| 12 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 13 | Well I , when I come back from Stop Hill when I 've been on a long shift till five o'clock , I 'm whacked because their bungalow is so warm |
| 14 | Now the first story that I 've been asked to tell specially comes not from this country we 'll just let our lads here get dressed because you , you knew that the story was gon na come from a very hot country did you ? |
| 15 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 16 | At a recent training course that I 've been on apparently public services could have been protected since nineteen eighty one . |
| 17 | There 's only one branch that I 've been and that was Bury . |
| 18 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 19 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 20 | It wo n't be very good for the petrol companies that I 've been visiting here today , but every cloud tends to have it 's silver lining , and I , I think I can say with some confidence that the last factor that we 're considering is pouring over the revenues and wondering how much is coming in , that , that really has n't much come into it . |
| 21 | I mean in the periods that I 've been coming down and coming over , and it 's been a fairly regular basis , I should imagine every manager and director or university employee has put forward every conceivable way in which that particular building could be used . |
| 22 | My pen that I 've been working . |
| 23 | ‘ I go to flamenco classes , collect pictures of elaborate dance costumes and I 've been to lots of shows . ’ |
| 24 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 25 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 26 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 27 | I 've got more work since I 've been open about my sexuality than before . |
| 28 | I was work la last week and I erm I got ta scrub my nails after done everything anyway like every , like after I made the sandwiches , I scrub my nails after I 've been washing up , scrub my nails so I was scrubbing them all day Saturday , last week and it still did n't come out . |
| 29 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 30 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |