Example sentences of "i have [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 've been designing a new collection . ’ |
| 32 | I have been thinking a great deal about it , and I really think there was much force in what your friends said … |
| 33 | I have been thinking a good deal , as I 'm sure you have , about the decline in income and the urgent need to improve matters . |
| 34 | I have been trying a new range of foods from OSI , an American company with a good reputation in the States , which manufactures a massive range of both freshwater and marine food products . |
| 35 | Not only am I forced to share bed and board with a woman for whom I feel nothing but disgust , but for my pains I have been branded a disreputable opportunist by all and sundry . |
| 36 | I HAVE been given a new camera but have lost the instructions . |
| 37 | I have been given a beautiful abutilon plant , and I wonder if you could advise me on how to look after it . |
| 38 | I have been given a large quantity of fabric and I would like to know if it would be suitable for painting in oils or acrylic . |
| 39 | I have been helped a great deal just through playing for Dundee High . |
| 40 | I have been giving a great deal of consideration towards the most effective Council Tax structure to be adopted based on the experiences of Community Charge to date . |
| 41 | And he answered : ‘ Yes , I have been waiting a long time , waiting to hear you say that . |
| 42 | I have been waiting a long time for a British magazine to offer intelligent coverage of mainstream sport in a way that Sports Illustrated , among others in America , seems to do effortlessly . |
| 43 | ‘ Middlesbrough face the exciting prospect of the Premier League and I have been offered a new contract . |
| 44 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 45 | Tam Dalyell is wrong to say that I have been predicting a total European ban on lead in petrol as from June this year ( Forum . |
| 46 | I really resent the fact that I have been labelled a bad mother because I smoke . ’ |
| 47 | In case you think I have been having a merry old time , I 'd better tell you also that I have been staying up to the small hours as there has been such a lot of preparation to do , and the course participants have also been keen to make use of our presence by asking all kinds of questions about English etc. , so this is literally the first free time I have been able to make since I have been here . |