Example sentences of "i 've [be] [v-ing] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 4 | I 've been doing that for a long , long time . |
| 5 | I mean I 've been doing that for ever since we 've been on . |
| 6 | I 've been doing this for around six years now . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |