Example sentences of "have [pers pn] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why have I been treated in such a cowardly and despicable manner ? ’ |
| 2 | At no time have I been able to see anything cither Nazi or necessarily homosexual in the listed pleasures , which are precisely of the kind which might occur in a George MacDonald fantasy . |
| 3 | Have I been asleep under a hedge with a strange man not my husband ? |
| 4 | Only lately , though , have I been able to get virtually one pulse through the entire work . |
| 5 | Never have I been so reviled , never , and I have taken it all , knowing him to be old and alone , and I … ’ |
| 6 | Never have I been in a place of such contrasts . |
| 7 | ‘ This day have I been in the library and it has been very interesting . |
| 8 | Nor have I been encouraged ever since to think there 's an exact science . |
| 9 | ‘ How long have I been out ? ’ |
| 10 | Where have I been ? |
| 11 | How successful have I been at various jobs ? |
| 12 | What have I been praised for at work ? |
| 13 | What have I been criticized for at work ? |
| 14 | ‘ Nowhere have I been presented with so many extraordinary opportunities for startlingly fresh and original material for radio , ’ he says of Greenland , where he borrows a cassette and goes out recording ‘ wild track ’ ( a technical term that he expects us to know , meaning the sound background you hear when the broadcaster mercifully shuts up . ) |
| 15 | Then whom or what have I been seeing , Mrs Ridley ? |
| 16 | Not only have I been unable to identify any such ritual — it would , for instance , be incorrect to interpret the shamanistic seance as practised by the Chewong in such terms — but other practices , analogous to eskimo dog beating as presented by Briggs ( 1970 ) are equally absent . |
| 17 | Believe me , dear readers , never before have I been as relieved , as tearfully grateful to get to the 14th song on a 14-song album . |
| 18 | What the f— have I been drinking ? |
| 19 | Or ( how many years have I been promising myself this ? ) sorting out the stock cupboard/prep room ? |
| 20 | ‘ From you have I been absent in the spring ’ . |
| 21 | When we pointed the ending out to them , some said " You mean you can sometimes tell what a chapter is about by looking at the end " and others said " 0 Lord , how many times have I been told ! " |
| 22 | What have I been to him ? ’ |
| 23 | Husband or wife do get excluded for instance because the marriage has not been a particularly happy one erm and there would therefore be no particular one why the deceased would leave anything to spouses erm but it 's worth saying so if that 's the case , to prevent an action coming along and saying Oi why am I not being there , why have I been left out ? |
| 24 | ‘ What have I been eating ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I have encountered many species in my time , Fakrid , ’ he concluded , ‘ but never have I been forced to endure such unfounded bombast ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ And how have I been spending this summer ? |
| 27 | How long have I been sick ? ’ |
| 28 | Neither have I been someone who devotes an enormous amount of time to the care of my own face and figure . |
| 29 | Nor have I been able to watch A Winter Too Many . |
| 30 | Have I been offensive ? |