Example sentences of "[vb base] i have [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 2 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 3 | I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in |
| 4 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 5 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 6 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 7 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 8 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 9 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 10 | I mean I have been drunk , I have been stoned , I have passed out and I have been ill . |
| 11 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 12 | I realise I have been crossing the street towards an open door . |
| 13 | I realise I have been pinching her skin all this time . |
| 14 | That 's right yes , as I say I 've been left back and I won very comfortable , but in the middle I 'm a lot more comfortable . |
| 15 | If I take a bus into town during my lunch break to do some shopping I have to remember to throw away the bus ticket or he 'll ask me where I 've been , and when I say I 've been shopping , he 'll say he does n't believe me . |
| 16 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 17 | I hope I 've been given I hope I be the temporary staff but , those homes are being refurbished , there are no vacant beds in those homes because they are being refurbished . |
| 18 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 19 | Look I 've been holding Richard . |
| 20 | Look I 've been washing my hair |
| 21 | ‘ My lord sheriff , reverend gentlemen , ’ said the earl , ‘ you come very aptly , if Robin has reported your errand rightly , for I confess I 've been tempted to lift the lid on whatever it is they 've brought me from Ullesthorpe . |
| 22 | Like I 've been trying to tell everyone from the beginning . ’ |
| 23 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 24 | ‘ I just wanted to you know I 've been thinking of you . ’ |
| 25 | Oh I know I 've been cheated ! |
| 26 | I know I 've been working . |
| 27 | I know I 've been behaving like a pig , comme un porco , for a bit , but please read all my letters from the Jungle and you 'll see I 'm a changed man . |
| 28 | And you know I 've been sitting an hour . |
| 29 | I have you know I 've been going round and testing how many miles per galleon you can get out of it |
| 30 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |