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 . |