Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps if I had been more of an expert the differences would have been more apparent , but experts always tend to obscure the obvious . |
| 2 | Probably I could have done quite a bit better if I 'd been forced to work , because if I 'm not , I 'm not so bothered to do the work . |
| 3 | ‘ So if I 'd been queer , what happened this morning would n't have ? ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think I am taking this line merely because I have been corrupted by a philosophical training and can not come off the fence . |
| 5 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 6 | I was shocked too by Batty 's departure especially since I have been watching again and again the Leeds championship video ‘ 91/'92 in the last few days . |
| 7 | ‘ Not long ; only since I 've been here . |
| 8 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 9 | I have been in favour of regional government for as long as I have been in politics . |
| 10 | For as long as I have been conscious she has been out there in front of me , dodging arrows , triggering ambushes ; doubling back to brief me on the safest and fastest route forward . |
| 11 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 12 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 13 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 14 | But now I think , just because I 've been to prison there 's nothing wrong with me . |
| 15 | ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’ |
| 16 | Just because I 've been in front of a camcorder ! |
| 17 | But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there . |
| 18 | I never stopped loving you , but somehow since I 've been abroad , and you 've been ‘ out in the world ’ , we seem to have struck a deeper note , and more powerful … |
| 19 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 20 | Just as I had been told repeatedly that I was destined to ‘ do well ’ , so then I was being told that I was destined to be ‘ stout ’ . |
| 21 | You know I 've had it happen the lights have changed just as I 've been crossing them so I 've gone over and three cars immediately behind me have followed me . |
| 22 | But I have read and enjoyed ‘ pornography ’ , just as I have been aroused by the pictorial depiction of sex — and I refuse to feel guilty for it . |
| 23 | And because all these things will begin to happen … exactly as I have been told they will happen … more and more rapidly … powerfully … and completely … |
| 24 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 25 | And those have gone home while I 've been doing something else for them , they 've gone , and left me ! |
| 26 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 27 | All this had been done and was being done every day all over Europe by the people whom I had found so pleasant and human ever since I had been shot down . |
| 28 | Ever since I 'd been a youngster , watching and playing football , Hibs have held an important place in the game . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 30 | Ever since I 've been on board . |