Example sentences of "'ve [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and this is why I 've been today to see you . |
| 2 | No , I 've been today . |
| 3 | Fifty three people have said yes , they 've been physically abused . |
| 4 | The reason for installing QRAM is that I 've been repeatedly informed that one should always free up as much Conventional memory as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ Chinese and Western cuisines have very different styles , but since I 've been here , I 've realised that once chefs have the chance to exchange views and work together , it 's very easy to adapt to a new style of cooking . |
| 6 | Yet this is twice they 've been here — first last Spring , and now for the New Year party . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been here before so I know a little bit . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Has anyone ever spoken to you like this since you 've been here ? |
| 11 | A group of East German workers still in their blue overalls in West Berlin 's equivalent of Oxford Street , the Wilmersdorferstrasse , bought doughnuts and Western newspapers ‘ to prove we 've been here ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ A Day Of Outrage ’ on X-Clan 's fierce debut LP ‘ Back To The East , Blackwards ’ commemorates the event : ‘ We 've been here before/The background then , the pyramids/The background now , the Statue of Liberty ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ In case you have n't noticed , other than that first call , I 've made no attempt to try and find him since we 've been here . ’ |
| 14 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're not a new girl any more , you 've been here nearly a day . |
| 16 | It 's the busiest station in the world and once you 've been here it 's difficult to leave . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been here long enough to know how it works . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been here before . |
| 19 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 20 | ‘ In all the years I 've been here , nothing will beat this . |
| 21 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 22 | No , do not change that lovely , almost dreamy life we had in Joh'burg — I have n't been to any real parties since I 've been here — had no fun , but even so , I have lost the desire for them . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been here a while , then ? ’ |
| 24 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
| 25 | ‘ Yes , although this is n't the first time I 've been here . |
| 26 | The food has always been good here when I 've brought — er — when I 've been here before . ’ |
| 27 | Even the validity of many of the ‘ I 've been here before ’ experiences is rather doubtful as , with the growth of television and cinema , we have all seen so many places which we may later come to visit . |
| 28 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been here since 8am , and nothing . |
| 30 | There are three or four operators who 've been here longer than the computer , and I can see they 've really switched off . |