Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 've [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 2 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 5 | You think you 're exhausted after a days work imagine if you 've been doing that all day long , shouting |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
| 9 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | You think you can push me around because you 've been doing that since we were in the nursery . |
| 12 | And that 's rather a pity because we 've been doing these holidays for a long time now , and I think , those people have enjoyed themselves ? |
| 13 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 14 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 15 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 16 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
| 17 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 18 | There 's only one other person here in this country , since I 've been doing these interviews who has pointed this out . |
| 19 | It 's funny you know , since I 've been having these new cars I see these old cars , what a lot of bloody rubbish on the road , you know ! |
| 20 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 21 | They started to especially trainee managers , spending periods of time in the smaller branch , and they 've got to get on with that concern , but I think there are benefits since they 've been doing that . |
| 22 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 23 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 24 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 25 | ‘ Some of the stuff is very '70s sounding , but then again , as we 've been doing this thing for such a long time , I guess it 's kinda cool that all that is back in vogue . |
| 26 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 27 | Erm , but it is a body , it 's corpus as in body and and what the British National Corpus is doing , is putting together a massive amount of spoken English , erm , from all sorts of different contexts , and one of the contexts which they want spoken English from is an educational context , and so they are having to record you people , as they 've been recording some other people erm , in other educational institutions around the country and so on . |