Example sentences of "i 've been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been away all this week because my wife took a telephone message from Nora yesterday and it is it is in our parish . |
| 2 | Mr Rivers , I 've been away visiting friends , you know . |
| 3 | He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been dead worried about you , it did n't seem right you not having a fella and liking children and all . |
| 5 | ‘ I think the things I 've been most pleased with have been my excellent second-hand buys . |
| 6 | I have just completed a round of visits to most of the fund raising regions in England and Wales and I 've been most impressed by the preparations that are underway to prepare for our seventy fifth birthday . |
| 7 | I 've been most appreciative of the erm clarity and incisiveness of 's set out . |
| 8 | I 've been completely teetotal this weekend , thank you . |
| 9 | Durie said : ‘ I 've been up front on my own for a few games . |
| 10 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 11 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 12 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 13 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 14 | I 've been up all night . |
| 15 | ‘ The thing is , you see , I realize that I 've been rather stupid and rather selfish , and I 'd like to apologize . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Poor Dora , I 'm afraid I 've been rather beastly to her . |
| 17 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 18 | I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down . |
| 19 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 21 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 22 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official . |
| 24 | One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is . |
| 25 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 26 | Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 28 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
| 29 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 30 | So when he was told he was going to be transferred to the Sheriff 's Wayside Honor Farm at Castaic , he told reporters , ‘ I 've been pretty happy in the tank here . |