Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [noun] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been drinking vodkas all night . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been tasting bits all day , so when it comes to serving dinner I can only sit and chat . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been pissing blood all night , Tony . |
| 4 | I 've mentioned briefly there is um er , let me see , it 's , women who 've been abused show more need for power than a comparable group of unabused women . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been taking statements all day , and have discovered certain — anomalies in yours which need sorting out . |
| 6 | Now , you may not realize it but you 've been in civil litigation and criminal litigation , you 've been doing advocacy all term . |
| 7 | I 've been doing skyscapes all day . |
| 8 | ‘ If we 've been doing lessons all morning , they 've usually had enough by the afternoon , so we 'll sing some songs together or I 'll tell them a story . |
| 9 | ‘ Look , Ben , we 've been questioning Leslie all morning and he wo n't say a dicky bird , but we think he knows who done it . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been playing patience all afternoon , Miss Danziger ! |