Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 2 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 3 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 4 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 5 | I 've been told that on Tuesday . |
| 6 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 7 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 8 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 9 | No , no there 's not I mean I 've been doing this for fifteen years , and quite simply is , if you like , I 've been up the ladder , the contacts that were I 've had were relatively junior fifteen years ago |
| 10 | I 've been doing this for twenty five years so the best deal I 've ever done is the sale I make each week which brings me three hundred quidHe later went onto spend over five hundred pounds on a Mickey Mouse Toy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 14 | I 've been fined thousands of dollars for much less than Senna did . |
| 15 | Cos you do you 've not been anywhere unless you 've been made bankrupt in this place round here . |
| 16 | Now obviously that requires a more precise working knowledge of newspapers and the other media , what they want , when and how they need it , what the sort of particular publication is , you 've been discussing some of that and we can perhaps go into some of that in , in a bit more detail a bit later on . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 18 | You 've been drawn next to Jack Butler . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 20 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been found guilty of a breathtaking fraud that cheated thousands of people . |
| 22 | Yeah , and you 've been doing that for many many years , English |
| 23 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 24 | Alright cos I think we 've been sent these on approval to see if we want to adopt them for course material |
| 25 | So far , too , we 've been spared any of the gorier stuff they do here — and some of this stuff you just would n't believe . |
| 26 | mm , well we 've been told this with Simon , you know needs to get to standard with them , with maths in particularly , before he goes up to secondary level you know because |
| 27 | Good news for us but bad for them and that 'll have to be all for today , we 've been answering some of the queries that have reached us by post . |
| 28 | So we 've been doing that with children as well . |
| 29 | ‘ On things like consulting with patients and carers — we 've been doing that for years . ’ |
| 30 | And of course we 've been doing these for twenty years , folders . |