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 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I 've been getting up three times . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I said I 've been sitting here all lunchtime trying to sort out what bloody A A is apart from Alcoholics Anonymous . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been waking up all night every night covered in sweat , just the whole bed dripping in it . |
| 21 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 |
| 24 | What you 've been going out seven weeks ? |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | Mining unions who 've been told even more pits may soon close say the government must do more to secure orders . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been told more flattering things before , ’ he responded , semi-serious . |
| 30 | Aha , I worked in spooling , I 've been left now two year . |