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

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1 I help with a Sunday League side but I 've been advised not to play .
2 I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly .
3 ‘ It 's been a tough couple of years but I 've been relatively OK since earlier this year .
4 I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays !
5 and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed .
6 ‘ I 'm a tough , tough guy but I 've been crying my eyes out all day , ’ he said .
7 Well it 's not a yes yes for the garden because I would n't have room for it but it 's certainly a yes yes in my shelter delt because the birds love the berries and it really encourages them to use that shelter delt but it is n't as , as easy to grow , it 's , one tends to think of the nature plant as a tough plant but I 've been trying to establish about thirty of these in the shelter delt and I 've found they object to any form of total weedkiller round the root , so all the , the weedkillers that you would use for the first couple of years maybe to , to keep the , the weeds from growing round the stems , they tend to get chlorotic and die .
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