Example sentences of "'ve [be] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 They 've been nothing but trouble since they arrived here .
2 The awful thing is that the movies that I 've been involved with in the last erm few years have entailed my being abroad a great deal , and I was made in New York entirely and I was there for six or seven months , and the difficulty is that when you then make the movie and you take it round the world , you 're away for another three or four months and so you end up being out of the country for quite a long time , so I 've been nothing like as active with the university .
3 Just jot the other people 's names down and then obviously when they 've been they 've said their piece just strike their name through so you do n't go and .
4 They 've been they 've done before I believe .
5 and we were gon na get the police to ge w well i it just said the , the short name and we thought it was a boy that had written and if it had 've been we were gon na get the police because she 's under age you see .
6 You 've been her nurse at home for four months ? ’
7 And she added with a dead laugh , ‘ We 've been what my aunt calls celebrating .
8 I 'm not right sure I , I 've been what it was you know ?
9 Well I 've been myself .
10 There 've been plenty of people like that , all down history , and plenty of them psychologists , who 've had lunatic and silly ideas that everyone 's forgotten about .
11 He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake !
12 That is um if you erm if you make children er sort of lie down on their fronts with their bums in their air and you and bums in their air and you touch anuses apparently the anus dilates , or it can do , erm allegedly in children who 've been sexually abused in that way , in children who 've been who 've been penetrated anally .
13 In all the years , and I 've been it 's secretary now for fifteen years and I have n't had any trouble .
14 As a matter of fact I 've been I 've got a book now from the library we got last week that er about Moseley and er and his daughter , and it 's good .
15 I 've been I mean I 've been trying to give our a bit of a hand whenever i can , in
16 Well actually what I 've been I 've been taking two before I go to bed at night .
17 And erm I think they 've been I think they 've changed really over the months I think all of us have as well and erm well that 's how it started anyway .
18 You know I 've been I would n't bother showing them some that worked , I 'll always pick the case that had some hiccup on it , so the basic skill you were trying to show them never worked out , you know what I mean and it 's well do n't worry about that , if it was a normal case
19 No I 've been I 've been here a long time like
20 Although they do they do I mean I 've been I 've been to the presentations
21 Yes there is I 've been , yeah I 've been I 've been buying shares er Excon shares in a share p er a share purchase
22 I 've been I 've been intending to ask you actually about the about the women workers .
23 I 've been I 've been to the Saturdays and Wednesdays
24 Actually I 've been I was sitting in the lounge today right and you know the situation there see his car going round the corner and stop and got out the car beaming at me , I said cor give him my old !
25 I 've been I 've been advised chair that I 've made the same mistake as you did so .
26 Erm , also I 've been I did phone the office up because I wanted to be report on the environment impact
27 Well I 've been I really do n't know .
28 I 've been his obsession , and I know .
29 I 've been his doctor for many years , nearly all his life , I suppose .
30 I 've been his servant for twenty years .
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