Example sentences of "i [vb base] [be] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 I think that as professional drivers we would all w look at that and s and see that Er I mean been out with very many lorry drivers and er that is the way that I 've sort of been with the majority of the guys that I 've been in .
2 Just got erm , I mean was out in the stick I like to just half a dozen little flight of stairs perhaps with a dozen steps
3 I like being in with my family .
4 He said I like being in with me boys .
5 I remember being down there watching Amityville II alone at midnight when there was a thunderous knock on the front door .
6 Oh yeah , it 's getting quite cold , I reckon were in for some snow .
7 ‘ Because I find being out with you useful .
8 Which I suppose is in .
9 I mean I think been up
10 Erm , so playgroups I feel need , erm , particularly for certain children , they need to find assisted places of some sort , because say it 's one eighty a session , and they need several sessions a week , if they 're to benefit from it , and one eighty or one seventy or whatever the cost is , which I think is round about that figure , erm , is not something that a family normally would have priority , the , the kind of family who has to have erm , needs , special needs anyway themselves .
11 We got a cold gust of er icy winds when that I think was out in blossom then there would n't be many conkers .
12 I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time .
13 But I 've been up all night .
14 I 've been up all night , thinking .
15 Wait until I 've been up and seen your Grandma Coates . ’
16 I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly .
17 ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke .
18 I 've been up to my eyes in mannequins and haute couture . ’
19 Then he admitted as he shovelled manure at a tree-planting ceremoney in his Huntingdon constituency : ‘ It occurs to me I 've been up to my neck in this stuff for the last month . ’
20 Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games .
21 I 've been up to my ears , ’ he says .
22 Sometimes when I 've been up early at home walking in the woods and come upon a roe deer close to , motionless , its alarm and scenting has reminded me of her .
23 I 've been up all night working on these . ’
24 I 've been up since the crack of dawn . ’
25 And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor ,
26 Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down .
27 I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy .
28 I 've been up here tw twenty-three years and I did n't go out till I came here so I should say I was about twenty-two years ago I started back to work .
29 Well the , the er the Guilds I can speak now because I 've been up to a higher level , I 've been on the section and Birmingham is a very big area .
30 And it must be , I 've been up here twenty-three years , it must be getting on for thirty years old that teapot and er I could n't have afforded that money for that stainless steel teapot , as those days , but I had it with my divi .
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