Example sentences of "[coord] i have been [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then a long time after that , it was May , and I 'd been the night before , but he was out ( or in bed with someone ? ) and that evening he was in and alone , and we talked some time ( he was telling me about John Minton ) and then he put on an Indian record and we were quiet . |
| 2 | ‘ My name 's Allan Scuffle , and I 've been a full-time singer for only four years . |
| 3 | She was the first dog that I got to know and I 've been a sucker for them ever since . |
| 4 | ‘ I got the hell beat out of me and I 've been a Mexican ever since . ‘ |
| 5 | and er , and so , and er as I say er I 've had a most wonderful life and I 've been a widow now for ten years . |
| 6 | And I 've been a few years on the Council now and when I first went on the Council I was going to move mountains and make oh big Taj Mahals everywhere , but when you get on these things you have a rude awakening , it does n't work out that way and it works out exactly the same in this erm . |
| 7 | I 'm now up to a thirty four B and I 've been a thirty four B ever since then . |
| 8 | And I 've been the leader of of that party for the last four and half years , I am ready to step down from that , and ready to take up this challenge , and I believe that those experiences , and what I 've done there , will stand me in good stead . |
| 9 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
| 10 | Although Fair Isle is officially part of Shetland , and I had been a keen birdwatcher since I was a boy , I had never had the opportunity to visit the island until I had started to work for the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . |
| 11 | My personal life had been a disaster : I had had a lousy relationship with my mother ; been frightened of my father ; from time to time my marriage had been close to the rocks and I had been an uncaring father . |
| 12 | ‘ But I 've been a good girl so I get to eat Mr Chef 's meal instead of lumpy mashed potato . ’ |
| 13 | I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays ! |
| 14 | But I 've been a member for many years I like the policy and erm my friends and I just decided that we would fund raise for them as they have n't got anyone in this area . |
| 15 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |