Example sentences of "[adv] i have [been] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If only I 'd been a bit more sophisticated when we first got married . ’ |
| 2 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps I 've been a little obtuse , Fran . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps I have been a litle obtuse . |
| 5 | So I had been a visitor , and an occasional attender at the X-ray Department , but all that was spread over many years . |
| 6 | * So I 've been a bad boy at times but they reckon I ca n't walk out on a job if I 'm in the Jungle and Matt 's temperamental which means he does n't normally work unless they give him a hamper full of white powder but he seems to have kicked it and there are n't too many dealers swinging through the trees like Tarzan out here . |
| 7 | Er just I 've been a Hibs supporter for forty four years now following them and er I do n't think , I do nay fancy a move out to Ingleston . |
| 8 | I began to wonder whether or not I had been the victim of an extended delusion , which was perhaps the function of an overheated adolescence leading to some kind of psycho-hormonal explosion . |
| 9 | I knew later I had been a damn fool but … |
| 10 | I began to think she would be worthy in time of being my mistress , which till now I had been a little scrupulous about . |
| 11 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 12 | I will be next week , but up to now I 've been the Deputy Managing Director . |
| 13 | ‘ And should n't I have been the first person to have known about them ? |
| 14 | I thought that maybe I 'd been a bit harsh last night . ’ |
| 15 | Ever since then I 've been a great admirer of his work . |
| 16 | I should be congratulated not criticized , and if sometimes I 've been a bit unfair , played a bit of a game , that 's life is n't it . |
| 17 | As for the borrowing lecture and the lecture on job creation , I have been able to state on a number of occasions when I have been a little more demotic that all independent forecast suggest that under a Labour Government — heaven forbid — borrowing and unemployment would be higher . |
| 18 | Water came from the taps and sat in an unnerving basin shape : the blue plastic failed to dematerialise from the world where I had been a grateful and temporary guest since the moment five years ago when I had vouchsafed in the sight of the God of men Ido . |
| 19 | Well we went off and got off at Peel which was the other with the all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time because I 've been to the police and reported it . |
| 20 | He said it 's happened before and he advised her to go to the police and er so he , he said er when and the police st told her , when you come back we 'll have all this typed out i and she came back all with a flask all bandaged up and she said the chemist advised me to go to the police and er so she said that 's why I 've been a long time , because I 've been to the police and reported it . |