Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 2 | We were all asked to sit down — which was absolutely unheard of — and then he said , ‘ Well , I expect you 've all been wondering how you got here … . ’ |
| 3 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
| 4 | I 've just been filling in my books and reading all about it . |
| 5 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 6 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 7 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |
| 8 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
| 9 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 10 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 11 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 12 | This one you 've just been doing now . |
| 13 | Student asks thirty people , how long it had taken them And you draw a frequency table , which you 've just been doing there . |
| 14 | We 've already been working closely with them for a long time because of the shared ownership . |
| 15 | And we 've generally been moving already with our big investment that we 've already got in Child Care , let's not forget that , towards this philosophy of that 's enshrined in the Children Act , which is building up parental responsibility and encouraging and supporting parents containing their own children , rather than being forced to give them up . |
| 16 | Yeah I 've still been working though . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , Pip , ’ replied Joe , ‘ how we 've both been looking forward to working together . |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose we 've both been racing long enough now to know racing is racing . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've both been working so hard that this break has given us the opportunity for a second honeymoon , ’ he told her smoothly . |
| 20 | You 've both been working very hard — two of the best in the Khedive 's service — and you have n't been able to find anything . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've probably been working too hard , ’ he said , giving her a penetrating stare . |
| 23 | It 's usually a trouble-free procedure , but occasionally there 's a problem over whether you 've really been living apart . |
| 24 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 've really been thinking hard , have n't you ? ’ said Dorcas . |
| 26 | ‘ For the last few months I 've really been feeling together , an integrated personality for the first time since my breakdown . |
| 27 | I 've really been feeling very very low . |
| 28 | ‘ The truth is , I 've simply been trying not to step on Merry 's toes . |
| 29 | What kind of community has it been , having lived here having had so many years in which you 've actually had I mean ei either lived here for forty years plus erm from many other years you 've actually been working here in addi in addition . |