Example sentences of "[coord] i [vb base] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was always close to my mother and I like being around women . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've got broad shoulders and I 've been through it as a player . |
| 3 | I 'm 15 years old and I 've been with my current boyfriend for quite a while . |
| 4 | I 'm 21 , and I 've been with my boyfriend for almost four years now . |
| 5 | It 's a novelty , and I 've been with animals all my life . |
| 6 | So anyway , she said oh yeah , so I know what Sandra can be like and I 've been with her |
| 7 | ‘ I go to flamenco classes , collect pictures of elaborate dance costumes and I 've been to lots of shows . ’ |
| 8 | You go to the market , and I 've been to the market , and I 've said , where do your grapes come from ? |
| 9 | And I 've been to the hills , Ellen ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 12 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 13 | I cos I ca n't picture another stone you know on any other roadsides and I 've been on plenty that and I travel and no and I can never know of another st stone that was put up to a tramp . |
| 14 | In fact , he is one of the best professionals I have ever played with — and I 've been around a few years ! ’ |
| 15 | And I 've been after a zither for a long long time |
| 16 | ‘ And I 've been in every one of them , ’ Maidstone said . |
| 17 | ‘ And I 've been in the parish longer than he has . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , I did n't get up Sunday , then I thought I 'd better go in to work on Monday , but I came home early and I 've been in bed ever since . ’ |
| 19 | And I 've been in next door . |
| 20 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 21 | And I 've been round the country a little bit . |
| 22 | He 's been so good about it and I love being with him . |
| 23 | And Salford-born Phelan , who has signed a five-year deal , admitted : ‘ My family and I have been through hell in the past couple of weeks and signing for City is such a relief . |
| 24 | ‘ Mrs. Bonnard and I have been to a concert in Aldeburgh . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ But blood is thicker than water and I have been at the hospital waiting to hear how she is but she has n't come round yet , ’ said Mr Harrison . |
| 26 | John Cocks and I have been on ahead to check things out . |
| 27 | This has ruined my sitting room and I have been onto the council about it but they have done nothing . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Valerie and I have been in a relationship for five years now . |
| 29 | ‘ I have never seen or heard since my knowledge of things , ’ wrote a British admiral in 1745 , ‘ that one of our ships alone , singly opposed to one of the enemy 's of equal force , has taken her , and I have been in almost every action and skirmish since the year 1718 , and yet we are daily boasting of the prowess of our Fleet . ’ |
| 30 | I dare n't disobey her , Miss Abbott — dare I , Aunt ? — because you see , my brother and I have been in her care since we were boys and stand in the greatest awe of her imaginable . ’ |