Example sentences of "[noun] i have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous term I had been placed third — now my position was sixth . |
| 2 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 3 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 4 | For the last five years I 've been doing this series , for the last 12 months sharing it with Ed Douglas , and in all that time there 's been the rain . |
| 5 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 6 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 7 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 8 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 9 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 10 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 11 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 12 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 13 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 14 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 15 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 16 | I wish I had a pound for every time I 'd been asked that . |
| 17 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 18 | In this series I have been introducing twentieth-century martyrs to illustrate the points I have been making . |