Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too much television . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Jacqui , you 've been watching too much television . |
| 3 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
| 4 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 5 | I think you 'd better go next door , you 've been warned enough this afternoon . |
| 6 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 7 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 8 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 11 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 12 | Aha , I worked in spooling , I 've been left now two year . |
| 13 | They 've been brought up different way have n't they . |
| 14 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 15 | You 've been playing too much football |