Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got five so far and I 've been getting into good positions . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 3 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 4 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 5 | I 've been going to Glorious Goodwood for twenty years — and invariably play golf while I 'm there . |
| 6 | During the Christmas and Easter holidays for as long as I can remember , I 've been going to assorted relatives and friends , but in the long , summer months I 've always gone home . |
| 7 | ‘ The way you just came barging over just now — you could have blown everything I 've been working towards sky-high . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been driving like mad to catch up with you . |
| 10 | Now I 've been told by other people who 've er erm gone down this route that I 'm proposing to follow with L E As that erm there are two ways round it . |
| 11 | I 've been told by numerous friends of his that he does n't want anything to do with Ricky at all , that he 's said . |
| 12 | It is n't working out for me , I 've been told I 've got ta increase my payments to a hundred and one pounds fifty two a week for my two children from my previous marriage , and I 've been told by Social Security that the hundred and one pound fifty two a week will take my ex-wife and her husband off income support , so I will be keeping her family and their child . |
| 13 | I 've been used to domestic chores and looking after children all my adult life . ’ |
| 14 | I 've been primed with stolen cash from a post-office raid set up to finance your old man 's own version of early day closing at the nick . |
| 15 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 16 | FG : Would you say you 've been influenced by similar painters ? |
| 17 | If you 've been used to linear note-taking for many years , you 'll need to persevere with the Buzan method . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been talking about wonder-boy Elliot , ’ she guessed , spotting his name . |
| 19 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 20 | I mean you 've had Sue , Sue for example tied up on and all those sort of issues , Bob 's been dealing with pr pension conversions and stuff like that for , for months on end , so we 've been dealing with other projects , all that 's happened is the work has been redirected onto a different type of project . |
| 21 | We 've not given anything away and if we 've been affected by other pressures — England , injuries and the like — then okay . |
| 22 | And to show you what the situation is er the world 's energy demand is very likely i i i is almost certain to increase er because of development in the world and also because of the growing population er that arrow is some sort of guess as to how the world er the demand for energy worldwide is likely to increase when you set that against the curves at the bottom which show the likely projections for oil and natural gas as you can see as we get into the next century those er fossil fuels , which we 've been using with gay abandon for many decades , will start to into er decline . |
| 23 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 24 | Not necessarily for us yet , but we 've been asked by Special Branch to take it on board . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 27 | And we 've been saying to Chief Executives , if you ca n't get the profit or you ca n't get the sales , well at least concentrate on trying to , trying to get the cash , get the debtors in , that kind of thing . |
| 28 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 29 | So System Ten is the culmination of several years of work that we 've been doing with other hardware and software vendors but most importantly with our customers . |
| 30 | Now we 've been approached by Irish Railway with regard , they 've got something like thirty million pounds from the to upgrade line from Dublin to Belfast . |