Example sentences of "i 've been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 2 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 3 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 5 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 6 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 7 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 9 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 10 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks-man item , not mod in any way . ’ |
| 12 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 13 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 16 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 17 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 18 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 19 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 20 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 21 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 22 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 23 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 24 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 25 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 26 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 27 | I 've been learning that . |
| 28 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 29 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low . |