Example sentences of "[coord] i have [been] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 2 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 3 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 4 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 6 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 7 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |