Example sentences of "[noun sg] and 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 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
| 17 | I 've got two thirds of back and I 've been doing it a month . |
| 18 | She thinks she 'll be away for a week and I 've been wondering who I could get to look after the house . " |
| 19 | Senior Midland area and I 've been working on a job in Coventry which is basically work er what I hope to get mainly out of this course is an increased level of personal confidence so I can overcome basic nervousness when speaking . |
| 20 | A big game and I 've been here and played in it before . |
| 21 | I sent him away after supper and I 've been finishing Emma . |
| 22 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 23 | and er , and so , and er as I say er I 've had a most wonderful life and I 've been a widow now for ten years . |
| 24 | I first heard about Hampden on a radio programme when I was a boy off sick from school and I 've been interested in him and his life ever since . |
| 25 | Now when I came to see you , I think it were earlier on in the year and I 've been to see er the other doctors . |
| 26 | Well the parrot he sort of came in the Boar War he did he sort of flitted on my shoulder and I 've been lumbered with him ever since and nobody seems to want him . |
| 27 | Conditioning I 've just had a perm and I 've been blow-drying my hair every day , I found that the conditioner gave my hair a lovely shine and added a bit of life to it as well . |
| 28 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |