Example sentences of "[noun sg] i 've [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 2 | Well , to be fair , that 's not always the case , and in this instance I 've definitely been forced into something of a rethink . |
| 3 | ‘ Except for losing Mum I 've always been lucky , but it 's bound to change sometime . ’ |
| 4 | And of course I 've never been introduced to you properly . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Of course I 've never been able to cook . |
| 6 | So I was trying to spare and it 's really the most coldest branch I 've ever been in . |
| 7 | It 's the other kind of thinking I 've never been able to muster , the long-term stuff , ‘ Never confuse strategy with tactics , ’ one of my tutors advised me , but I ca n't even remember what the words mean . |
| 8 | yeah there 's a muse th th there 's a museum at Carne in Normandy , I do n't know if anyone 's been there , we went there last year , and it , it 's a new museum , a memorial museum and that 's the most moving place I 've ever been because it 's actually designed to show how awful war is and that it should n't happen again , it 's not a museum glorifying war , it 's a museum showing that , that it should n't happen , we should n't let it happen and there 's a erm there 's a great big case as you go in which has er a statement from every country that took part in the war , including Germany , and they 're all there , they 're all there together saying that you should n't you should n't let it happen and , and and I , I thought that was the sort o you know i i it was very impressive because i it was n't glorifying anybody , it was n't saying we won the war , you lost the war it was it was a , a coming together to say that it should n't happen . |
| 9 | Queerest place I 've ever been in , ’ said Ella . |
| 10 | This is the only nine to five sales job I 've ever been able to offer anybody . |
| 11 | In my whole life of collecting and I suppose it 's a little bit to assuage my conscience I 've always been able to say to myself that I 'm allowed to have these things and enjoy them , but eventually they 're all going to museums . |
| 12 | Man , to this day I 've never been so sick . ’ |
| 13 | Is the person I 've just been , an ego in my head . |
| 14 | Leeds 2 Leicester 1 — This is probably the most memorable game I 've ever been to . |
| 15 | ‘ That was just about the most disgusting exhibition I 've ever been subjected to ! ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I have a feeling I 've just been conned , Father . |
| 17 | Sir I 've just been recording you . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm just the same size I 've always been , Mum . |
| 19 | ‘ But let me tell you — both of you , ’ darting a venomous look at Major Calder , ‘ that this is without doubt the most degrading and distasteful thing I 've ever been asked to do ! ’ |
| 20 | That 's one thing I 've always been a quick learner which has been quite |
| 21 | But I , I mean when it comes to times tables that sort of thing I 've never been sorry I learnt those . |
| 22 | P.S. I 've just been informed it 's arrived . |
| 23 | To me it 's the unhappiest house I 've ever been to . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the first time I 've ever been able to persuade Beefy to stop for treatment , ’ says Dave ‘ Rooster ’ Roberts , the new England cricket team physio who is looking after the walkers . |
| 25 | Well , er very good but erm last year I was very disappointed I did n't get invite , an invite to the old time musical which is most unusual , it 's the first time I 've ever been missed out , but I do n't know how it happened , our warden did n't have any of us invited , so I do n't know how it happened |
| 26 | ‘ As I told you last night , this is the only time I 've ever been to Venice . ’ |
| 27 | and so Clement Freud said , not to him but now on this programme this morning , that 's the first time I 've ever been de-grandfathered |
| 28 | Danbridge or you can come up Danbridge in the up to Wolvercloth , yes , but I 've never been , it 's the first time I 've ever been anywhere near the shopping |
| 29 | and he had the nerve to say that is the first time I 've ever been said about it |
| 30 | spend a day Oh aye , that 's what I was going to say , that was the first time I 've actually been through . |