Example sentences of "[vb base] [conj] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realise that I had been less than a block away , watching the drugstore explode . |
| 2 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 3 | I say that I have been sick with flu . |
| 4 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 5 | I forget when I 've been away . |
| 6 | I regret that I had been out of the office on the 15 July and did not receive your FAX until first thing on the 16 July . |
| 7 | And I hope that I 've been of some assistance . |
| 8 | Dagenham boss John Still said : ‘ That was the best match that I have been involved with in 14 years of management . |
| 9 | Wait until I 've been up and seen your Grandma Coates . ’ |
| 10 | I said er I I imagine cos I 've been visiting his wife you see . |
| 11 | ‘ You know that I have been asked to give a course of sermons at St Basil 's ? |
| 12 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 13 | ‘ I 've always been a great Archers fan but I 've been sworn to secrecy over what I will be doing . ’ |
| 14 | Er the thing is that the people in the northeast yes er there is a lot more work done up there by the Society but you know since I 've been down in Horsham I have found that the northeast is not alone . |
| 15 | Kindly note that I have been specific on the daily to do list . |
| 16 | SOMETIMES I FEEL THAT I 've been sung to by Smokey Robinson for my whole life . |
| 17 | Anyway I feel that I 've been thoroughly tea 'd up . |
| 18 | That 's not so worrying , but I feel that I 've been successful in my own right and I would erm like to think I deserve the same recognition as we 've both set same standards over the last twelve months . |
| 19 | In 1930 Nizan noted " I dislike the philosophy of oppressors because I feel that I have been the victim of oppression ; reconciliation with oppression does not strike me as a victory for freedom , but rather as a death sentence . " |
| 20 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 21 | Boot and I had been allocated the less spectacular task of making and using miniature Barkausen-Kurz tubes as possible receivers . |
| 22 | The next time you try and I 've been here before , and I did n't get it last time . |
| 23 | I ask because I have been throwing out a raft of old notebooks and discovered some scrawled lines from years ago about the open air factor . |
| 24 | ‘ I think … yes , I really think that I have been far too cautious , ’ he murmured quietly , before slowly and deliberately taking her into his arms . |
| 25 | I agree that I have been reinforced ( although I 'm not sure that I learnt how to make coffee by operant conditioning — I suspect I copied someone , or was told how to do it — but that is a separate issue ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Never mind that I 've been tricked , deceived into coming all the way down here ! |
| 27 | I have always counted on my fingers and still do and I had been so nervous about this that I went to classes with the ATC in Darrowby before my call-up , dredging from my schooldays horrific calculations about trains passing each other at different speeds and water running in and out of bath tubs . |
| 28 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 29 | ‘ I think if I had been allowed to go on , there would still be a British film industry , ’ Forbes said in the late 1980s . |
| 30 | Admit that I 've been on ‘ Top Ten ’ ; 5 . |