Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 3 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 4 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 6 | In the past year I 've been invited by many of you to meet branch members and to make shop visits all over the United Kingdom . |
| 7 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 8 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 9 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 10 | Or perhaps Miss Hopper should speak to the women who 've been raped by some of the men in here . |
| 11 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 12 | They 've been described by some as the ugliest dogs in the world . |
| 13 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 14 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 16 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 17 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 18 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 19 | When you 've been used to that for sixty-two years , hot water and a flushing toilet do come as something of a culture shock . |
| 20 | ‘ We 've been used to this since the anti-Rightist movement in 1958 , ’ observes an elderly economist of great distinction , trained in Germany in the 1930s . |