Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [been] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been on automatic pilot for 25 years .
2 I 've been on thyroid tablets since 1939 , but they do n't affect me ’
3 really s I 've been to dental hygiene cos I thought
4 Yes and er if I might s oh I er do n't know I 've been to bloody shop meself but I ai n't sorry about it , cos I 've done what I 've wanted to do and I 've enjoyed what I 've done and erm the authorities they get 'd me that on er hardship grounds there , as I say , being on er residential premise and er they showed me great respect and er
5 I 've been like mad mad busy w one thing and another .
6 I 've not been against lines of communication , I 've been against excessive expenditure on such .
7 I 've been in regular contact with Earl 's Court Project and a lot of my friends down there .
8 I 've been in traditional sales .
9 I travelled the country well , I 've been in other authorities both labour controlled , been in to schools , been in old peoples homes , erm seen their roads , or driven over their roads , and I can assure you , that er in Lincolnshire .
10 ‘ I was here in good shape , but I 've been in good shape at other championships and failed .
11 K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up .
12 Perhaps I have been over enthusiastic about this project , but there was something about the schools I visited , and I am no stranger to African primary schools , which seemed to me to provide a recipe for steady progress .
13 But I have been in regular contact with Ali Bacher and he assures me there are no problems over the tour and that it is definitely on . ’
14 Gray said : ‘ I have been in similar situations before as a player .
15 I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’
16 Remember we keep talking about tourism as being fashionable , it 's fashionable to say you 've been to certain destinations .
17 Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term .
18 They might be sub-personalities , friends , family , guides , your Higher Self , or ‘ selves ’ you have been in other lifetimes .
19 If you have been in continuous legal employment , the requirement to serve a Training Contract [ page 6 ] may be waived , but you would have to complete the Professional Skills Course , after completing the Legal Practice Course .
20 We 've , we 've got the erm , we 've got the six hundred organizations running so far about three thousand events , probably a few more if you count every single er course that some of the training schools are running but in terms of key events I 'm very confident in being able to say there are three thousand events running around the country about half of which are new and that 's the important thing so about fifteen hundred new and inaugural events that did n't go on last year or the year before Belinda the R Y A Public Relations Officer has been coordinating the public relations campaign and these days to get the young pe young people and those young people whose parents do n't sail because it 's to get at the people whose parents do sail , you 've actually got to get in the media and er we 've been on Blue Peter , we 've been on Going Live another children 's programme on a Saturday morning and
21 the P E teacher is supposedly collecting aluminium cans and we 've been through various daft schemes of stopping the children from throwing the cans everywhere because we 've got this coke machine .
22 And it 's er er we go to Ffestiniog power station to have a drink and then come to er er well we 've been at Royal Hotel at Betsy-Coed these last years or two .
23 Yeah bear i I mean both of us sitting here , we 've been to social functions on this areas
24 We 've been in chinky we 've brought our tea .
25 We have been to other schools .
26 We have been in close contact with the Scottish Office and the competition authorities to this end for more than 18 months . ’
27 We have been in great difficulty during the last thirty six hours over an alleged parachute operation which you have in view .
28 I have come to the House this afternoon from a meeting with a representative of the Canadian High Commission , with which we have been in constant touch from the outset of the incident .
29 We have been in constant touch with him , ’ said Quigley , as if he was reassuring the chairman about the Exports Division .
30 In addition to that also erm we have we have been in constant contact with the erm Kuwait Red Crescent , which is based now in Bahrain , and we are erm helping to get Kuwaitis in touch with the Kuwait Red Cross in Bahrain , have them trained erm to know first aid basics , donate blood , so on so forth .
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