Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been looking forward to this , ’ Stephen announced with a kind of childish glee . |
| 2 | I 've been looking forward to this visit for a long time for that reason . |
| 3 | You 've been looking forward to this wedding for days now . |
| 4 | I see you 've got no carpets down anywhere the door 's not painted and he said you 've been living here for two years ! |
| 5 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 6 | To help ourselves we have not ignored the nostalgia trend , however , for we 've been glancing back at nineteen eighty two to guess what we think will be the most significant arts ideas for nineteen eighty three . |
| 7 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 8 | I feel as if I 've been whisked away to another world , ’ she breathed , her face radiant . |
| 9 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 10 | They 've been hunting here for 150 years . |
| 11 | Because they 're a year younger than I am , two years younger and they 've been registered now for six , seven , eight , or nine years . |
| 12 | We also did a very important er , technology transfer to Czechoslovakia , which er , unsubmersible pump neck technology and that 's tended to , to erm , hide a slight delcl er decline in the last quarter of the year , normally in oil most of the profit or more of the profit comes in the second half than the first , but with the Gulf War last year oil prices were pretty firm and er , so we 've made er , quite reasonable profits in the , in the er , first half and so too in the second half , but in the last quarter they 've been showed up by that technology er , transfer and the er , U S oil price is er , is , is er stag the U K's is stagnant , the U S is stagnant in oil and the gas prices are very , very far down , they 're well down . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been hosed down with cold water while standing naked in the snow , ’ said one man . |
| 14 | not freehold land freehold buildings we 've been depreciating now for many many years . |
| 15 | Yes , by the way I 'm gon na be able to see Max , I 'll tell you that now because I 've been dragged off to another conference , I 'm actually going down to the , to the rehabilitation workers ' phones |
| 16 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 17 | Cos they 've been building up like that and they 're bound to fall down . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been racing around for most of the day . |
| 19 | Local residents in Wootton have become increasingly worried that high-intensity paint spraying will bring unpleasant smells and health hazards to the area , and they 've been backed up by local M P , John Patten as well as the Vale of White Horse District Council , whose planning committee have voted to stop Hartwells expanding their Wootton site into what they described as an industrial park . |
| 20 | So then Berndt and the old witch will know I 'm as smart as they do n't want me to be , AND that I 've been poking around in high-security files . |
| 21 | I 've been sitting here since two o'clock my two o'clock cup of coffee . |
| 22 | " Well , I 've been sitting up with one of my best sows . |
| 23 | I 'm not , I 've been sitting down for half an hour . |
| 24 | He said almost sulkily , ‘ I 've been behaving badly for two years , and you know it , and you do n't even mind . ’ |
| 25 | We 've been going on like that for six to eight weeks now . |
| 26 | We 've been going on like this for months . |
| 27 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 28 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 29 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |