Example sentences of "[conj] i 've [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 2 | I 'm a perfectly engineered Kill machine , which will carry out its orders until they 've been implemented or I 've been destroyed . |
| 3 | I tried many many times , and hundreds and hundreds of ways to find him , and the man just does n't exist , or I 've been told he does n't exist . |
| 4 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 5 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 6 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Never mind that I 've been tricked , deceived into coming all the way down here ! |
| 8 | It 's because of that interest , and those letters , that I 've been sent to do a special report . ’ |
| 9 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 10 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 11 | 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 ? |
| 12 | ‘ We 've all come a long way , Carrie , and we 're going to go a lot farther … but come inside , I think Christian 's found that bottle of brandy that I 've been hoping he 'd forgotten . ’ |
| 13 | I wo n't be able to tell them that I 've been seeing you since November , but I 'll tell them . " |
| 14 | I 'm defiantly proud to point out that I did thirteen drafts of Wanda and that I 've been writing comedy professionally since ‘ 63 , so by the time I was writing Wanda it was 24 years . |
| 15 | And I 'm aware that I 've been called too bland on occasions . |
| 16 | No he said , I ca n't give it back to you , you 're the person that I 've been looking for all my life . |
| 17 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 18 | It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months . |
| 19 | Er previous to that I held the licence for The Mason 's Arms at for three years previous to that and before that I 've been connected with the catering and licence trade from being fifteen . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | if we do n't work on the strategy that I 've been suggesting |
| 22 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 23 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
| 24 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 25 | ‘ I really do n't know where you got the idea that I 've been avoiding you , ’ she said with laudable calm . |
| 26 | The American legal system is so odd that I 've been told I could get Tristram deported in my custody . |
| 27 | A sergeant appears from what a plate beside the door indicates is the dentist 's and I go up to him and tell him my name and that I 've been told to report my movements by Detective Inspector McDunn . |
| 28 | Now we know that Antarctic bottom water is formed here in the Webber Sea and the samples that I 've been talking about were taken here in the South Georgia basin , so we can see that it has taken seventeen years for the water to travel from here to here . |
| 29 | Erm the service continues next term with me starting and then Mike taking over half way through and what I 'll be doing is supplying the general two theoried two theoretic semantics that I 've been talking about erm two specific instructions in a natural language I can get what six |
| 30 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |