Example sentences of "[pron] 've [been] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 2 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 4 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 7 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 8 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 9 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 11 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 12 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 14 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 16 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 17 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 18 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 19 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 21 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 22 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 23 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 24 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been doing some calculations . |
| 26 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 27 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 28 | I said rapidly , ‘ I 've been having these dreams . |
| 29 | I 've been studying these boys and I can till you they 're bloodee slow — so lit 's git out there and run the ligs off them ! ’ |
| 30 | I 've been doin' all sorts of jobs since then , and livin' in all sorts of lodgings , and now I 've been chucked out of me last place because I did n't 'ave any job or any money . |