Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
| 2 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 3 | I I mean I mean I 've been up since half past three this morning , |
| 4 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 5 | Well it does , I mean it 's it 's I mean I 've been there about just over three years , three and a half years . |
| 6 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 7 | Well , I , I , I mean I 've been to one , to a meeting , they had in Manchester a few years ago , Irene 's been to some . |
| 8 | I mean I 've been in two shops now there 's fifty pound difference like , you know |
| 9 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 10 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 11 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 12 | It 's stupid , I mean I 've been a driving instructor seventeen year , and I 'm not allowed to teach over here . |
| 13 | with all those redundancies a couple of months ago , I thought that 'll be it , I mean I 've been there |
| 14 | I mean I 've been in more pubs than I 'd say longer than most people who drink a lot and er you know it 's just be I think music and and song is the big addiction in Ireland not the drink but because er it it the chances of a music session starting in a pub is just you know the chances are that it probably will at some stage of the day . |
| 15 | I mean I 've been in quite a bad mood this week actually but it 's really , like you know standing up for myself cos anyone that 's rude to me now gets it right back in their face . |
| 16 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 17 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 18 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 19 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 20 | I mean I have been into this window frame business . |
| 21 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 22 | I trust I have been able to dilute any misgivings that my letter may have stirred . |
| 23 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ I realise I have been the bane of certain UKCC officers ’ lives and I hope that if I am elected I will continue to act as a grain of sand in the oyster . |
| 25 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 26 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 27 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 28 | That 's right yes , as I say I 've been left back and I won very comfortable , but in the middle I 'm a lot more comfortable . |
| 29 | I put I had been to the grammar school and I got my O levels . |
| 30 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |