Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 3 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 7 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 8 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 11 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 13 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 15 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 16 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been designing a new collection . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
| 20 | I 've been feeling a wee bit sick . |
| 21 | I 've been feeling a wee bit |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 23 | 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 " |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | I 've been paying a full stamp since nineteen seventy four . |
| 26 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been waiting a long time , ’ she said soothingly . |
| 28 | I 've been waiting a long time , watching the roads , asking about new arrivals in the large towns . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel , ’ he said , ‘ as if I 've been waiting a hundred years for you . ’ |
| 30 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |