Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 2 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 3 | I 've n I 've been using the other keyboard all on the X T and I ca n't get used to this one yet . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been using the front entrance lately . ’ |
| 5 | and then it 's not disturbing her although we 've been using the bottom bedroom really . |
| 6 | And can I just comment on one point by Mr , he said about they 've been using the local government erm housing Act . |
| 7 | I 've been called the quiet man and I would n't argue with that . ’ |
| 8 | Right , erm , what happens then , Philip , if the client says to you , and it 's unlikely with Covermaster , but it 's the same principle if you 're talking of a savings plan or a pension , erm , I do n't like the idea of my money being invested in a managed fund , I 've been reading the financial press , and I 'm very interested and excited at the thought of the Japanese market going up through the roof . |
| 9 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 10 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 11 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't want to make a big thing about holing myself up in the middle of nowhere , but people are asking me where I 've been and I ca n't really say I 've been touring the Far East or helping Bob ( we think he means Dylan — Ed ) with his album . |
| 13 | ‘ No doubt you 've been overseeing the physical takeover of your new business ? ’ |
| 14 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 15 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 16 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 17 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 18 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 19 | If the figures that we 've been given the recent figures , cos w I 've been working on figures for August up to August but now we 've got even better figures . |
| 20 | I always know if I 've been given the wrong change |
| 21 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 23 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 24 | It 's most satisfying to suddenly recognise an easier way of doing something you 've been doing the hard way for ages ! |
| 25 | The Dept of Health says ’ we are aware of the problem and we 've been pressing the medical profession to do something about it for some time . |
| 26 | For heaven 's sake , you 've been breathing the rarefied air of the ivory tower for as long as I can remember . |
| 27 | You 've been cutting the bottom part of the grass ? |
| 28 | I 've been designing a new collection . ’ |
| 29 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
| 30 | I 've been feeling a wee bit sick . |