Example sentences of "i 've been [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 2 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 3 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 4 | what somebody comes to that , tomorrow and knocks at that door and says look I 've been sent here by you say good bye , good night , good luck nothing has been said to me , I |
| 5 | So when I 've been fussing about in there |
| 6 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 7 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |
| 8 | Do you think I 've been staying here for the good of my health ? |
| 9 | And I 'm effectively shut up because I 've been kicked out of my job and a ] so because you do n't seem to have heard a word I 've been saying . ’ |
| 10 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 11 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 12 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 13 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Never , but I 've been reading up on the history . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been thinking today of the time I took Piers and Antoinette to meet him . |
| 16 | ‘ I 've been thinking objectively for once . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been thinking back to Ladymont , to people I lameducked there . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 19 | Myler said : ‘ I 've been fed up of injuries and played only eight matches last season after a neck operation . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been brushing up on my Italian , ’ Molly 's father went on , ‘ with the aid of an extremely sexy-sounding signorina I got on a tape from the Fulham Public Library . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ Hari said , ‘ I can look after myself , I 've been taught well by my mam and dad . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 24 | I 've been invited down to Plymouth for a party at the weekend . ’ |
| 25 | I told you , I 've been moved around like a parcel . |
| 26 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been using both for over a year now and the best I 've been able to get is a ratio of 1.8 to 1 . |
| 28 | As we walked away to a coffee-shop in the Royal Mile , Meehan said , ‘ That 's the first court in my life I 've been turned away from . ’ |
| 29 | It 's like I 've been dragged out of the pub and into a bloody video nasty . |
| 30 | I 've been dragged in by the Old Bill twice and your pet grizzly bear Nevil is making life very uncomfortable for people I know . |