Example sentences of "i have been [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 2 | I 've been good all week |
| 3 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 5 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 6 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 8 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 10 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 11 | You will soon see that I have been right all this time . |
| 12 | ‘ My sister and I have been estranged some years . |
| 13 | I could say that in spite of ties of affection I have been lonely all my life . |
| 14 | ‘ I have been alone all night ! |
| 15 | ‘ I have been large all my life and I do n't see why others ca n't be the same way . ’ |