Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've never asked me , not once , how anything has gone , or where I 've been or whom I 've seen . " |
| 2 | Or if I had been poor and friendless , with no hope of riches or success ? ’ |
| 3 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |
| 4 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 5 | Within a month the tense of the verb curdles : ‘ It seems to me that if I had been your husband , we would have been happy together . |
| 6 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 7 | I had a feeling that if I had been somewhere in the midst of a mob at Madison Square Garden they would have sill got that metallic voice to talk to me . |
| 8 | I think that 's what I think , but I 'm not sure that if I 'd been born here I 'd be pleased to see me walking down the lane . |
| 9 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 10 | But it 's definitely a unique sound , with that percussive effect that ca n't be recreated on an electric bass — and I know that because I 've been getting sampled a lot recently … |
| 11 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 12 | It is interesting that since I have been the Minister responsible for regional policy , regional spending has increased from £506 million in 1990 to £534 million in 1991-92 . |
| 13 | After I had recovered from the anaesthetic the house officer came to tell me that while I had been anaesthetised the senior registrar had in fact examined me internally . |
| 14 | ANOTHER Budget bites the dust and I am assailed by the sobering realisation that though I 've been subjected to a fair number of them now , I have n't really understood any . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , well , I 've tried that when I 've been really pissed up , ’ admits Mark , ‘ and it 's never really worked . |
| 16 | For years I carried a secret guilt that when I had been wounded — and seven of my men killed — I had not done enough for them or those that remained . |
| 17 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 18 | ‘ And where I 've been is none of your damned business . |
| 19 | There was a time when Charles was coasting at school and if I had been working , I would have told him to buckle down — which would have done no good at all . |
| 20 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 21 | I 'd always wanted to be a comedian at school , I 've always been obsessive about comedy , and if I 'd been rubbish it would have been a bit problematic . ’ |
| 22 | And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either . |
| 23 | ‘ And because I 'd been speaking slowly , my lip patterns were distorted . |
| 24 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 25 | Nevertheless on arriving in Sydney I was brought into the Theosophical Centre , and before I had been there a week found myself a very interested enquirer . |
| 26 | Er previously I 've had , held the license of Three Fishes at Lyddon er , for three years er , previous to that I held the license of the Mason 's Arms , with for three years previous to that and before I 've been connected with the catering and licensed trade from be fifteen . |
| 27 | I 've got more money , I 've got more money than that and after I 've been , after , after I 've paid , after I 've paid the tax |
| 28 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 29 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 30 | Oh cos when I 've been doing it |