Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [pers pn] 've been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 2 | Fashanu said : ‘ It 's a trapped sciatic nerve and I 've been told to rest for about three weeks . |
| 3 | Ah , hands always go up when I 'm about to finish the programme and you 've been so |
| 4 | Yeah well thanks Jim , it 's been lovely meeting you and I , I 've enjoyed the evening erm and enjoyed , thanks for the tea and we 've been through |
| 5 | Anyway , we 're here for the indefinite future and I 've been given the job of furnishing the hotel . |
| 6 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 7 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 8 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |
| 9 | A corn and I 've been putting corn plasters on it |
| 10 | Byron was my hero and they 've been slogging it out ever since . |
| 11 | The way we see it , they both did a runner and they 've been in hiding ever since . ’ |
| 12 | But to Sophie 's intense mortification it was Dawn who arrived and said calmly , ‘ Robert has been called out to a difficult calving case and I 've been told to give you his apologies . |
| 13 | You come to trial and you 've been accused of something , what were they accusing him of ? |
| 14 | Done quite a wee bit and I 've been there at a few of their , quite a few of their meetings and erm a good friend of quite a few of the councils . |
| 15 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 16 | ‘ We 're all fine , there 's no damage to the building and we 've been able to continue broadcasting without interruption , ’ she assured him , her voice sharp as resentment rose , and she went on to inform him of the decision she had taken . |
| 17 | Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ? |
| 18 | No-one 's wanted to have a punt and we 've been scrambling about for the odd winner . |
| 19 | Everyone has had a reasonable work-out and we 've been very fortunate with the weather at a time of the year when you can have a lot of matches ruined by rain . ’ |
| 20 | Seeing Derek 's puzzled look , she added : ‘ You mentioned the Spanish Civil War and I 've been thinking about the message the kidnappers told me to use to contact them . ’ |
| 21 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 22 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
| 23 | What I want to cover now is a type of network that we study a lot in the computer architecture group and I 've been working with for years and years and years erm called the N tuple network . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've worked for fourteen years in this business and I 've been given to understand that I should get a partnership one day . ’ |
| 25 | I use the TC Electronics 2290 for chorus and delay and I 've been using a PCM 70 for reverb , but I just got this new reverb from Real Tube . ’ |
| 26 | Constant hum , people started from the first day and they 've been flowing through ever since with a high point at the weekend when they 've had more time to come up to London to have a look at things look at things . |
| 27 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
| 28 | If I 've had a great day and I 've been playing a lot and I feel real confident , it sometimes does n't come together on stage at all . |
| 29 | Very exciting stuff and I 've been telling her not to speak so loudly . |
| 30 | Erm , you know , if they 're sitting there in water and they 've been peeled and they 're ready to cook , they wo n't be cooked until they 're needed to be cooked , you know . |