Example sentences of "[adv] i have be [verb] " in BNC.

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1 It is worth noting that although the product is only just released commercially I have been using an ‘ engineering ’ version on the PC for some two months while the actual review tests were done on a genuine US release version .
2 But mostly I 've been working in television . ’
3 Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable .
4 We do n't even discriminate against those who send in their entries in their own handwriting , however much I have been urged to do so by the typesetters .
5 I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work .
6 Naturally I had been invited .
7 Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! "
8 Perhaps I 've been watching too much television yes .
9 Perhaps I 've been infected by those damned journalists . ’
10 It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course .
11 But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’
12 Perhaps , I only say perhaps , I promise nothing , ’ he said , throwing his purse carelessly from one hand to another , ‘ perhaps I have been told to give you a present when you lose your apprentice . ’
13 ‘ Then obviously I 've been looking for the wrong qualities in my secretaries . ’
14 Or so I had been told .
15 So I 've been biding my time .
16 So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true .
17 Yes , well she was all , so I 've been speaking to her for weeks when she did n't
18 She shows some talent , or so I 've been told .
19 ‘ Or so I 've been told . ’
20 It 's just the way they roll the curler on so I 've been told but erm whether it 's simple as that or not I do n't know .
21 So I 've been left with a load of tapes , batteries .
22 We 've gone back quickly so I 've been informed that build that 's definite starting on the twentieth of March .
23 so I 've been advised to stop that , hence it 's on the agenda .
24 so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe
25 I really do think that there is a degree of inconsistency in compelling a Gothic architect to erect a classical building — and so I have been thinking of appointing you a coadjutor , who would in fact make the design !
26 Or so I have been led to understand .
27 So it was minuted in a sort of staff student consultative group last year , so I have been requested to confine it in some measure to a single text .
28 I AM a handsome ( so I have been told ) 40-year-old man .
29 and literally I 've been working
30 I 've got to make him feel that finally I 've been touched by his chivalry and so on and so on …
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