Example sentences of "[pron] 've been [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
2 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
3 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
4 | ‘ I 've been admiring your little house . ’ |
5 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
6 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
7 | You 've been twisted something rotten , |
8 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
9 | You can renew your loan at any time providing you 've been meeting your regular repayments . |
10 | You 've been driving me crazy , but now I 'm going to have your body , and if it 's the last time then so be it . ’ |
11 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
12 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
13 | ‘ I take it you 've been attending your local ante-natal clinic regularly ? ’ |
14 | Oh perhaps you 've been saying what other |
15 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
16 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
17 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
18 | ‘ We 've been told your entire street has gone , ’ he sighed . |
19 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |