Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb base] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
| 2 | I have sometimes taken on a role where I have been injured , a plague victim , and used the role to become Devil 's Advocate , suggesting that one of the more aggressive boys in a class " Finish me off . " |
| 3 | I 've had before where I have been told waited and helped people finish their |
| 4 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
| 5 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
| 6 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
| 7 | Keifer Sutherland , son of Donald , managed to steer clear of drugs , ‘ although I have been known to let off steam occasionally , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 9 | ‘ No , I have a little flat of my own , although I have been spending more time than usual at the villa since the kidnapping . |
| 10 | Unless there are more anti-Loraine Crescent closure petitions than I have been led to believe , the one I think Mr Howe refers to was rendered dubious . |
| 11 | Unless there are more anti-Loraine Crescent closure petitions than I have been led to believe , the one I think Mr Howe refers to was rendered dubious . |
| 12 | That was the point , I thought , but perhaps machines are more versatile than I have been informed they are . |
| 13 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
| 14 | I 'm told Madeira is an experience not to be missed , so I 've been coerced . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
| 16 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 17 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 18 | Fortunately , I had my suspicions about it right from the start , so I 've been working closely with the police to help clear it up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
| 20 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
| 21 | Car oil , so I 've been told , is their tipple . |
| 22 | ‘ So I 've been told often and oft , ’ and he gave a sigh . |
| 23 | ‘ And compliments , so I 've been told , oil the wheels of life . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ So I 've been told . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ So I 've been told . |
| 26 | ‘ I did think , ’ David began , as they moved away , ‘ there 's a nice little restaurant just opened in Tewkesbury , not far from the Abbey — cosmopolitan sort of menu , so I 've been told . |
| 27 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
| 28 | Weather gets nastier here — my week in 21–28 October was warm and wet , so I lazed and read and ate — read a lot and ate a lot which , given the state of the bathroom scales , enriched both mind and body ( HA HA ) so I have been trying to eat and drink less . |
| 29 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 30 | Conditions in workhouses throughout the country were supposed to have been bad , but here , so I have been informed they were even worse . |