Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed .
3 As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months .
4 ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’
5 Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do .
6 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 ?
7 They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future .
8 Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance .
9 When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it .
10 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 . ’
11 Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association .
12 We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ?
13 ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled .
14 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 . ’
15 I 've been designing a new collection . ’
16 I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory .
17 I 've been feeling a wee bit sick .
18 I 've been feeling a wee bit
19 ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’
20 I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something "
21 ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat .
22 I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four .
23 ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly .
24 I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns .
25 For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it .
26 ‘ I 've been offered a temporary job at a private clinic .
27 But now my personal life has been … simplified , and I 'm back two doors away from where it all started , maybe I 've been offered a new beginning . ’
28 You see , I 've been offered a great deal of money for information which might discredit Alan Dysart : anything scandalous from his past or present .
29 I 've been burping an awful lot , in my stomach .
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