Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 've got broad shoulders and I 've been through it as a player . |
| 3 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I feel pain in my back and legs after I 've been doing aerobics . |
| 7 | Because the kind of earthly and human illustrations that I 've been trying to use this morning are all bound to fall short . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I go to flamenco classes , collect pictures of elaborate dance costumes and I 've been to lots of shows . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | the er the lady that comes to the meetings cos I 've been going to them . |
| 15 | Pakistan also have strong support from ex-Test stars from other countries such as Australia 's respected former captain , Richie Benaud , who says : ‘ On the opening day of the final Cornhill Test I was privileged to witness some of the finest swing bowling in the 44 years that I 've been in the game . |
| 16 | Although not directly connected to the constitutional difficulties being experienced by Canada , McKenna acknowledged the indirect connection when , speaking of the growing co-operation between the four provinces , he admitted that he had " seen more co-operation during the last six months than I 've seen in the last five years that I 've been Premier " . |
| 17 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 18 | Chairman , it 's always been this Committee 's policy over the twenty years , the twenty odd years that I 've been here , back here ru runner , that erm , so far as the food side is concerned , er , we should be , our policy should be based on the information , the truth , the whole truth , and nothing but the truth , and letting people make up their own minds . |
| 19 | I 'm hearing things now that I have not heard in fifteen years that I 've been on this County Council and I would suggest erm to Mr that when he 's talking about things that this County Council ought to print , and I think the one suggestion he came up with is very sensible , he could perhaps follow up with a catalogue of those things which he considers need doing that after a hundred years have not been done . |
| 20 | I 've never had a contract of employment in the six years that I 've been there but erm less than forty eight hours after all this happened every employee was issued with a contract of employment . |
| 21 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 22 | I know we 've argued all these years and I 've been irritable , if not downright rude , but … but … ’ and Creggan was astonished to see that this fiercest of eagles was suddenly close to a profound grief and for a few moments quite unable to say anything more . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been a tough couple of years but I 've been relatively OK since earlier this year . |
| 24 | ‘ When he does come back , he wo n't be able to say , ‘ Oh , I see everything 's gone to pieces while I 've been away ’ . ’ |
| 25 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 26 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's years since I 've been up here , ’ Vitor said , ‘ but if I remember correctly there 's a good vantage point another mile on . ’ |
| 28 | It 's years since I 've been in there . |
| 29 | Must be about three or four years since I 've been in there . |
| 30 | I say it was say it was about three , four years since I 've been in there so |