Example sentences of "[conj] i have been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman is clearly under the misapprehension that I have been Prime Minister for 50 years — not yet . |
| 3 | She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant . |
| 4 | I should mention that Merlyn and I have been parliamentary colleagues and friends for nearly 20 years , since he was elected by the same people of south Leeds who had sent Hugh Gaitskell to the House of Commons . |
| 5 | Well , do you honestly think the answer would have been the same if I 'd been Norman Ward Westerman or Lord Boddy ? ’ |
| 6 | If I 'd been fourteen years old I should have commanded one shilling , but being only twelve and a half I got sixpence . |
| 7 | And erm that 's quite special for me , it 's erm my homeland , where I 've come from , but I 've been twelve years in this vicinity around here , so there is erm if you like , a divided loyalty with the four kids . |
| 8 | yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing |
| 9 | Before I had been lifeless jumble of miscellaneous body parts but now I was Frankenstein 's monster , shocked by lust into coherence and action . |
| 10 | 'Cos I 've been this morning and I 've cleared fireplace out , washed |
| 11 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 12 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |