Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i 've [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 2 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 3 | I 'm 15 years old and I 've been with my current boyfriend for quite a while . |
| 4 | Basically , the things I 've been involved in have always been different and I 've been lucky . |
| 5 | Ring them up and say ‘ I hope you do n't mind me messing you about like this but I 've been thinking over your kind offer , and I realize I could fit it in after all because of a sudden change of circumstances at home and my mother 's coming down to help me out — oh , and if there 's a spare ticket — ’ |
| 6 | But I think he 's tarmacked this since I 've been , no he has n't . |
| 7 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 8 | ‘ I always feel sort of furtive and illicit after I 've been with Sebastian . ’ |
| 9 | but I have actually worked for organizations where they do see it in terms of those centimetre arr erm measurements and that 's a you know I mean it 's funny when I 've been giving talks on communications erm one of the things I say to people is erm where your stuff appears is crucial do n't worry about one and page three . |
| 10 | You know it 's funny when I 've been up when I 've been on a diet , I mean smelling , smoked out , smoked out on the house |
| 11 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 12 | But it wo n't be that much because I 've been out of things for the last year and before that I had shut my eyes anyway . |
| 13 | It 's just all sore and I 've been taking a pain here this week . |
| 14 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm sorry if I 've been a bit below par this evening , ’ she apologised . |
| 16 | The first May I fell out my garden and put my elbow out , this , this , this one right out which makes it awkward for me to use now , you know , I , I put that right out and therefore erm I had to go at , up to hospital and put that right and the follow the following , the following May my bed caught alight with electric blanket and that blazed all up , had my , had my bed all alight my double bed , the electric blanket and I 'd only just had it serviced and that went , that was the second May and the third May we were going on an outing me and erm Arthur that was lodging with me and he , we got out of the taxi at Parndon and it , he just collapsed and died at me feet so that 's the , that was the end of that and I 've been living here you know , since he went , and erm I used to be able to get anywhere with one stick cos I had arthritis in this right hip you see , I could get anywhere with one stick in the taxi , or anywhere and I went to my son 's , er which is now coming , I 've been here about twelve years in this bungalow , er eight years erm , eight years ago in No this November gone , I went down to my son 's , it was rather slippery and he took me down in the car and I , as I got out erm the car I said to him mind it 's very slippery , he said I wo n't let you fall mother he said , so I went in , but as I came out with one stick he still had n't got anything down , you know , if it had been a , a sort of erm sand or something down I would n't of slipped and I got half way in his car and out I fell and caught this left hip on the step , on the step and I dislocated my hip and it 's right out of the socket like that , it should be , and I ca n't have it put back because I 've had several coronaries in my life time and I can not have it put back you see |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 18 | Well I 'm sorry but I 've been working . |
| 19 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 20 | I did n't tell your mum that I 'd got it on you see she said now all that I 've been saying ! |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But I was so ready to become a mother , and I 'm happy and more confident than I 've been before . |
| 23 | And on the other hand , what are changes such that we want to say that at the end of the change there is just no me left there at all and I 've been replaced by something else . |
| 24 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 25 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 26 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 27 | Striker Atkinson said : ‘ I 've felt better since I 've been in the unit . |
| 28 | He 's been at Pepe 's as long as I 've been coming here — though he does sometimes take holidays , I must admit . ’ |
| 29 | erm There always has been the situation since Derek Roberts retired , and in fact his post was put in the pollution section , where there was only one E H O , the agreement then that there would be a swap straight E H O for technician swap , but food had traditionally , as long as I 've been involved have three E H Os . |
| 30 | I 'm thirty-five and I 've been playing drums for thirty years , almost . |