Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 2 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 3 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 4 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 5 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 6 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 7 | Cos if you were asked as , as , as a person by , by a manager or by somebody else to , to actually do the training , then it 's your responsibility is n't it you 've been asked , you 've been given that task and it 's your responsibility to ensure that people are able to do at the end of the session something effectively . |
| 8 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 9 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 10 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 11 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 12 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been doing this character since I was 12 years old , and I used to talk like that . |
| 14 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 15 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 16 | Thirdly that there is no requirement to demonstrate a need to locate development in open countryside erm and we 've been reminded this morning that erm one of the erm flaws in the policy put forward back in nineteen seventy nine or eighty erm appears to be that it erm required , certainly in the explanatory memorandum , that the development be erm essential erm to er essentially have a countryside location . |
| 17 | Yes we did , we were talking about our General Election strategy and er we 've been planning some campaigning and training workshops and so on , and I can tell you that we 've selected a Green Party candidate for Oxford west for the General Election ; his name is Mike Woodin , and the process is going on to select someone for Oxford east , so there 's certainly going to be a strong Green presence in Oxford during the General Election . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been working all night and I 'm worn out . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been wondering all day whether or not to own up to this . |
| 20 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 21 | I 've been studying these boys and I can till you they 're bloodee slow — so lit 's git out there and run the ligs off them ! ’ |