Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i 've [be] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’
2 Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks .
3 Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel .
4 And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there .
5 I help with a Sunday League side but I 've been advised not to play .
6 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 ?
7 At a recent training course that I 've been on apparently public services could have been protected since nineteen eighty one .
8 There 's only one branch that I 've been and that was Bury .
9 My pen that I 've been working .
10 A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it
11 I 've got more work since I 've been open about my sexuality than before .
12 But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies .
13 Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils .
14 at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back ,
15 Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning .
16 Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you .
17 The point that I 've been making with the various percentages is that those negotiations will become unrealistic if on average , you 're talking about forty some percent of sites having to go for affordable housing on a negotiated basis .
18 Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million .
19 Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’
20 I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to .
21 What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network .
22 ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’
23 ( Technically I should have Norris 's solo room because I 've been in the flat longest , but that room 's small and noisy ; also , Gav does n't snore and he 's quite happy to retreat to the living room couch if I have female company …
24 I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes .
25 I always seem to get them at dawn , it 's something to do with the stuffiness of this room after I 've been locked in it for a night .
26 As I 've started writing to ya now , I might as well ask you some stuff that I 've been dying to ask for ages .
27 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 .
28 It 's as if I 've won a marathon , or a prize , or some huge event that I 've been training for for months .
29 I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’
30 If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all .
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