Example sentences of "i [pron] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I I 've been coming here for forty years so far and and provocative statement I think in your programme this Autumn is the best that you 've had for years it 's a very good combination of classical and and modern plays and I really congratulate you on this programme and I would like to see that standard maintained . |
| 2 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 3 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 4 | Well I 'm not to brag too much I I 've been lucky have n't I ? |
| 5 | I was going to light it I I 've been lighting it until er the beginning of the week I think . |
| 6 | Now I I 've been selling hairpieces for twenty three years so I 'm probably better in a better position than anybody here to explain the emotions of men who 're losing their hair . |
| 7 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 8 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 9 | Yes I I 've been busy today . |
| 10 | Right and then I I 've been out today and I probably wo n't go out for another four days so I hope I 'm alright you know that way it gives me chance to get it right again . |
| 11 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 12 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 13 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 14 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 15 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |
| 16 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 17 | The question I I have is quite a simple one , and that is I would like to actually see this pond slightly closer quarters than I 've been able to . |
| 18 | Coconut palms , mangroves and many unidentified trees confused me considerably , I who had been used to nothing taller than a stunted elder bush in a croft garden ! |
| 19 | It was not , alas , I who had been inadvertently left alone for two minutes in an antechamber where by chance lay the plan of the Althaus plumbing system — to prove , as so much that is missing does , the crucial piece of evidence when , later , people were trying to fit together the events that fired the conflagration of the civilised world . |
| 20 | It can not have been easy , all these years , and who am I to criticise , to look askance , I who have been lucky , who have only myself to please , whose time is free . |
| 21 | I am a good citizen , a nice person ; I am just at the moment in the grip of a sexual passion , in the throes of love ; I am alive : I who have been so nearly dead for decades , which is why I am currently neglecting them , just a little . |
| 22 | Well , there will be a certain amount of explanation that will have to be done , because Geoffrey Howe is a well known , well liked figure among many people that I deal with er but now , and for some time now , for a year now , it 's I who have been dealing with them and I hope I 've inherited some of the work and some of the trust which he helped to create . |
| 23 | Yeah I There 's been some correspondence in the financial papers about the family trusts er and particularly with regard to inheritance tax and so . |
| 24 | To get a different view , and yet I it 's been very interesting it 's been very interesting |
| 25 | Er I what 's been said about the report and I think it identifies the main issues . |
| 26 | They would n't join the grown-ups for a good many years , though the Sheikha 's daughter had been my meal companion before I myself had been accepted by the ‘ grown-ups , . |
| 27 | There , I myself had been a giant , an important person who had become famous for helping the people of that small country . |
| 28 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 29 | I myself have been very careful not to tell you where they live , and I am not about to tell you now . |
| 30 | Having just bought Seamus Heaney 's latest book for Christmas , I can at least deny that I myself have been mean to Heaney over the festive season . |