Example sentences of "[adv] i [verb] been [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters . |
| 2 | Perhaps , I only say perhaps , I promise nothing , ’ he said , throwing his purse carelessly from one hand to another , ‘ perhaps I have been told to give you a present when you lose your apprentice . ’ |
| 3 | so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda . |
| 4 | Or so I have been led to understand . |
| 5 | So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text . |
| 6 | ‘ All the way over I 've been trying to remember it . |
| 7 | Whenever I 've been asked to take a sponsored parachute jump I 've declined , giving the excuse ‘ fear of flying ’ . |
| 8 | So often I have been forced to submit to playing on the worst courts or not at all . |
| 9 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 10 | Ever since then I 've been trying to get the speed back . ’ |
| 11 | Since then I have been trying to gain recognition from Technics . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's why I 've been trying to get hold of you . ’ |
| 13 | Yes it 's it 's it was one of the er advertisements or programmes that went out on radio er again this is why I 've been trying to get over to people the sad things that have to happen to animals . |
| 14 | Too many nursing lectures are given by unqualified lecturers , and it is not uncommon for a person chosen to speak on a particular aspect of care to begin the lecture by saying : ‘ I do n't know why I 've been asked to speak , I 've limited experience in this field . ’ |
| 15 | I understood why I had been urged to hurry . |
| 16 | Incidentally I 've been asked to keep the talk fairly short , to avoid nodding off . |