Example sentences of "i have be [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most upsetting thing for me has been to see her medical notes and realise that she could have got the right treatment at home … that is if her country was n't being torn apart by war |
| 2 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 3 | All the while I had been telling my young passenger what I was going to do . |
| 4 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 5 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 7 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 8 | The one I 've been telling you all about . ’ |
| 9 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 10 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 11 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 12 | I 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were |
| 13 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 14 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 15 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
| 16 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 17 | I 've been watching you these past few days , and you 're incredibly tense . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been admiring your little house . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
| 20 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 21 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 23 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 24 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 25 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 26 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 29 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 30 | ‘ I have been moving my portable clinic from one place to another , but now I like it here . |