Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too many movies . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think you 've been watching too much television . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Jacqui , you 've been watching too much television . |
| 4 | Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been watching too much Hill Street Blues , ’ he said . |
| 6 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 7 | ‘ You 've been reading too many Sunday supplements . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I think you 've been reading too many thrillers , Superintendent . ’ |
| 9 | " And you 've been reading too many novels . |
| 10 | I 've been gone just two days , and when I return you 're in a stranger 's clothes with a bandaged hand , and an odd expression on your face . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been gone almost two hours . ’ |
| 12 | That has a go , an attack , about everything because you 've been rejected so many times , so many times , and will continue to be rejected when we get the next election that you 're frightened to death to have . |
| 13 | I think you 'd better go next door , you 've been warned enough this afternoon . |
| 14 | Which should have been done a long time ago , and I 've been given yet another extension . |
| 15 | Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it . |
| 16 | We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care . |
| 17 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 18 | We have erm , managers of these funds who have a lot of expertise , a lot of experience , we 've been going over thirty years now , and we 've grown extremely quickly because of the expertise of our managers . |
| 19 | Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because |
| 20 | We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away . |
| 21 | 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 ! |
| 22 | Mining unions who 've been told even more pits may soon close say the government must do more to secure orders . |
| 23 | Kathie is all Nell has got , we 've been told this several times ; he appeals to Nell as the mother of their only child , not to cause her to leave home . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been told more flattering things before , ’ he responded , semi-serious . |
| 25 | Aha , I worked in spooling , I 've been left now two year . |
| 26 | Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ? |
| 27 | I 've been sat there all evening nobody 's eaten it so I thought I might as well get on and eat it |
| 28 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |
| 29 | We 've been married nearly forty years . |
| 30 | You 've been playing too much football |