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

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1 Or so I had been told .
2 So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years .
3 So I had been right about that .
4 Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down .
5 She shows some talent , or so I 've been told .
6 * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here .
7 I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to .
8 so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe
9 so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda .
10 So I 've been biding my time .
11 ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’
12 and you put the cluster of wool in it and pull it back and it 's like little bobbles of wool and er I 've got a beige and a brown I 've done it with it will look nice you know , it will come right here , it 's a beautiful rug , quite nice , so I 've been busy and I make coat hangers
13 So I 've been in touch with Brian again erm and I said , ca n't you make sure that your blokes can do it in a day .
14 So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries .
15 Well I went dow back down the Road cos there was a traffic jam and er I sort of went down oh sorry mate went down a road like which I thought was a good short cut , and they 've got a lot of these roads and they 've put like pavements across the end of them with bollards , and I went back and then there was a traffic jam and I got stuck because they were unloading a lorry so I 've been er basically pissed about .
16 It 's just the way they roll the curler on so I 've been told but erm whether it 's simple as that or not I do n't know .
17 Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't
18 tunnel , you know , so I 've been through there
19 So I 've been .
20 We 've gone back quickly so I 've been informed that build that 's definite starting on the twentieth of March .
21 So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know .
22 I 've always been skiing with my parents , so I 've been to America to visit friends , and that 's not been like sightseeing , or something , and I just have n't been anywhere , and erm , I mean , I suppose I 've been to a lot more countries than a lot of people who 've , you know , there 's a lot of people who have n't
23 So I 've been to Rome and places like that .
24 So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true .
25 The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university .
26 erm We have n't as yet , erm the problem is I do n't normally deal with the sub- committee , the person that 's that should be dealing with it is not here today , so I 've been unable to track down a copy of this letter .
27 I 've spent 14 years in East Africa , most of it working with tropical rainforest and its utilisation , so I 've been in Uganda , which is a relatively small country as far as forests are concerned .
28 I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design !
29 I did get into a car the other day to drive to London to the Imperial War Museum to see an exhibition of work by Tony Carter and was excited by it , but my appreciation may have something to do with the fact that he was a student of mine so I have been familiar with his ideas over many years .
30 So I have been away longer than I said I would be , and Mr Shah is a little surprised at my dereliction .
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