Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 2 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 3 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 4 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 6 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 7 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |