Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 've been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
| 2 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 3 | Yes , I 've heard that you 've been doing more than sending it out , you 've actually been taking it personally have n't you ? |
| 4 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |
| 5 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 6 | We write to them normally within seven days , ask them to read it , clarifying exactly the policy they 've got , give them the option to pull out if they should so wish , and in fairness I have got to say that we 've been doing that now for the last eighteen months . |
| 7 | Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling . |
| 8 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 9 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 10 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
| 11 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
| 13 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
| 14 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 15 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 16 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 17 | Detente is a highly delicate subject right now … and we 've been getting some bad press lately . ’ |
| 18 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 19 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 20 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 21 | And they 've been smashing all different people 's ones . |
| 22 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 24 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 25 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
| 26 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 27 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 28 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 29 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
| 30 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |