Example sentences of "i have be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’
2 See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face
3 He said , well you see I 've been smoking .
4 See I 've been spoilt really
5 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 . ’
6 ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’
7 Well I mean I do I 've been doing aerobics a long time .
8 See I 've been coming for years with mouth ulcers .
9 I rub my face quick so she do n't see I 've been crying .
10 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 .
11 ‘ They were what stayed alive , when I 'd been taught and examined everything else . ’
12 I kept doing all the things I 'd been taught .
13 Since childhood , I 'd been taught to keep everything to myself — problems , opinions , feelings .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged .
20 I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted .
21 And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much .
22 I do n't know what I 'd been expecting .
23 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 .
24 I 'd been asked how I wanted him dressed .
25 ‘ 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 . ’
26 I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that .
27 You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’
28 I 'd been drawing since I was tiny — my grandfather is a very good artist , although he specialises in landscapes , and he 'd helped me enormously from the beginning .
29 I 'd been discovered .
30 The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus .
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