Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 2 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 4 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 5 | You can renew your loan at any time providing you 've been meeting your regular repayments . |
| 6 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
| 7 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 9 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 10 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 11 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |
| 13 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 14 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been told your entire street has gone , ’ he sighed . |
| 16 | Mister Grant has passed the crisis point now , and you 've been denying yourself proper amounts of sleep for the past five days . |
| 17 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 18 | From early this morning they 've been celebrating their seventh birthdays with cards , sweets and of course plenty of presents . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been admiring your little house . ’ |