Example sentences of "[subord] [subord] i have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school . |
| 2 | Although since I 've been on these tablets I can eat |
| 3 | Is the top , I mean I broke , had to get in my own house when I locked myself out once when I 'd been in the garden and I , I just got in by leaning through the top window and opening the bottom window , so now I always lock the bottom windows , I do n't bother locking the top one I open it |
| 4 | Oh cos when I 've been doing it |
| 5 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 6 | ‘ Now I 'm hoping we can see the best of Barnes because since I 've been Liverpool manager it is something I 've not seen . ’ |
| 7 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 8 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 9 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 10 | Asked why it had taken him 26 years to return , he said : ‘ I was n't invited till last year — though if I had been before perestroika , I would have thought not twice but 10 times about it , and I 'm not sure I would have come . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I look as though I 've been on the wrong end of a Gestapo interrogation . |
| 12 | I feel as though I 've been asked to define , what is the length of a piece of string ? |
| 13 | When I see you I get a clenched feeling in the gut as though I 've been punched . |
| 14 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 15 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 16 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 17 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 18 | Among the crowd of pedestrians I glimpsed a creature , whether boy or girl , and suddenly had the breath taken from me as though I had been punched , hard . |
| 19 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
| 20 | We are totally incompatible , yet after ten minutes in the same room as him I felt as though I had been plugged into the mains . |
| 21 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 22 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
| 23 | I return haggardly , as though I have been in a street fight , grotty from rushing and weeping and random taxicabs . |
| 24 | Yeah , well as I say , sometimes I go along while in between but I I think it 's more or less when when I 've been aggravated a bit , you know what I mean ? |