Example sentences of "[noun pl] and i have been " 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 | John Cocks and I have been on ahead to check things out . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've got broad shoulders and I 've been through it as a player . |
| 4 | ‘ A couple of the DJs and I have been invited to a party being given by one of the local music companies . |
| 5 | It is open to any local education authority to tilt its scheme towards primary schools and I have been encouraging local education authorities , where appropriate , to revise their schemes with precisely that aim . |
| 6 | ‘ I go to flamenco classes , collect pictures of elaborate dance costumes and I 've been to lots of shows . ’ |
| 7 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been watching videos of my fights and I have been making a lot of basic mistakes . |
| 9 | I mean , dammit all , Charles has been working for 40 years and I 've been working for 22 ’ ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I have lived here for nearly eighteen years and I have been accepted by the local community . |
| 12 | We have an energy-rich country and a massive trading balance , so why the hell are we importing electricity from France which I believe attracts the nuclear and importing coal from dubious sources and I have been told that some of that coal has been extracted by women and children , often in horrendously unsafe conditions . |
| 13 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 14 | I said playing the European Championships in Sweden would later take its toll on players and I have been proved correct . ’ |
| 15 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 16 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 17 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 18 | Another Sussex colleague , John Harrison , erm followed this through erm for the nineteenth century , and he 's written about the Shakers and I 've been interested in the Muddletonians and the Ranters . |
| 19 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 20 | Next , I set about finishing off some chapters of a rheumatology book for GPs that my Bristol colleagues and I have been writing . |