Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 2 | There was plenty of flying , sport , and my work on the aircraft was nearer to the pulse of the Air Force than I had been before . |
| 3 | Incredulity in one 's listener is a great silencer , particularly when it verges on ridicule , and Bob was likely to prove a milder critic than I had been . |
| 4 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 5 | When I got my first job out of training it was at Worthing in a juvenile leading role and I got my Equity card because I had been chosen . |
| 6 | I 'd put on weight while I 'd been in bed , and the zip on my slacks would n't do up more than half-way . |
| 7 | It was getting dark and the wind had freshened , the rain gusting through the length of the shed so I decided that it was time to pack up and head for the nearest hospitable pub where I had been told I would be able to get a good meal of hot pie and peas . |
| 8 | Retracing my steps , I realized with a shock that I was no more able to find my way back to the village than I 'd been able to find the place we 'd been raking . |
| 9 | ‘ In Nigeria I only knew of Guinness as the stout and Harp lager so I have been surprised by the diversity of the company , ’ reflects . |
| 10 | I 've got more work since I 've been open about my sexuality than before . |
| 11 | There will always be , I realize , those who would claim that any attempt to analyse greatness as I have been doing is quite futile . |
| 12 | But even this has not stopped my love for canoeing as I have been out many times since and this summer , when I was at camp , I was going down a weir , when I got caught in a stopper at the bottom and nearly drowned myself again . |
| 13 | at a , a particular wee bit if I 've been leaning back , |
| 14 | Get a bit of sympathy cos I 've been asked for eight by you . |
| 15 | ( 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 … |
| 16 | I am to be dominated by the truth because I have been made a Christian by the operation of the Holy Spirit within . |
| 17 | I feel a lot more at ease since I 've been using prostitutes . |
| 18 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 21 | went to put the , he , he went away again , but I , I did mention to the police , who I might say were very helpful were ninety per cent of burglars do n't get cleared up so of course it was n't important and I never expected it would be , but I did mention to the police at the time that I would like an future occasion because I 've been trying to use guns in America er to have a gun in the house but they er , but they would n't erm agree to it at all |
| 22 | Not that dissimilar from the other meter considering I had been swapping and mixing the two tank 's water . |
| 23 | I 've not watched any videos or television all day because I 've been hard at work . |
| 24 | Every night since I had been ill , she had ridden to Wuthering Heights and spent the evening with her cousin . |
| 25 | I 've had more fun since I 've been forty , sexually than what I have all fucking . |
| 26 | I have answered parliamentary questions from the hon. Gentleman when I have been able to do so . |
| 27 | The following year I was refunded three and ninepence by his successor because I had been over-charged . |
| 28 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 29 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 30 | Hello folks , my boss has been away this morning so I 've been busy scanning a few leeds picies and saving them as gif files . |