Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 've only been given a year 's contract , so the main priority will be to win all the matches , using essentially the same side that played in the World Cup . |
| 3 | ‘ 'Course I 'ave n't , you 've only been gone a minute . ’ |
| 4 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 5 | I 've only been divorced a few months . ’ |
| 6 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
| 7 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've just been given a present . ’ |
| 9 | you 're going to work in there , you 've just been given a , your , your standard value which is gross , thousand and thousand of dollars , now how are you going to spend that money that you 've got for |
| 10 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 11 | I in fact I 've just been shown a different copy of this , Gwen has just shown me a different copy and the colour 's is totally different , its a very , very poor erm print and , when I was looking at this through my book , the background was very strange and I felt that almost had been painted by a totally different artist , but having seen Gwin 's , er Gwen 's |
| 12 | As to my sign , you 've already been given an important clue . |
| 13 | He says they 've already been allowed a judicial review over the ban on deer hunting by Somerset Council and we 've requested one in the case of Hampshire . |
| 14 | And I 've already been offered a job as buyer for a group of chain stores which have each got a radio department . |
| 15 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 16 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 17 | there was a I mean I 've also been given a couple of ways to remember it but |
| 18 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |
| 19 | ‘ I 've also been told a prolonged illness can start it and , of course , some dogs just have a weakness . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've never been called a carpenter before , ’ he mused , ‘ but I suppose there 's something in the description . |