Example sentences of "i [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 2 | What you say to me has been said only to me . |
| 3 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
| 4 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 5 | If not , let me know because the copy you loaned me has been returned . |
| 6 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
| 7 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
| 8 | He said , well you see I 've been smoking . |
| 9 | See I 've been spoilt really |
| 10 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 12 | Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time . |
| 13 | See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers . |
| 14 | I rub my face quick so she do n't see I 've been crying . |
| 15 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 16 | ‘ They were what stayed alive , when I 'd been taught and examined everything else . ’ |
| 17 | I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught . |
| 18 | Since childhood , I 'd been taught to keep everything to myself — problems , opinions , feelings . |
| 19 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 20 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 21 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 22 | I 'd been expecting her to put up a stiff rearguard action , protesting that holidays were one thing and everyday life another , that she had only surrendered to me in a moment of weakness which she would regret for the rest of her life , and so on and so forth . |
| 23 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 25 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 26 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 27 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 28 | At Heathrow I 'd been asked specifically not to tranquillise him in case of the possibility of side-effects which could have seriously affected his future stud career . |
| 29 | I 'd been asked how I wanted him dressed . |
| 30 | ‘ Because I learned by accident INCUBUS was trying to take over his company — and exactly the same thing had happened with another industrialist I 'd been asked to draw up a profile for . ’ |