Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 2 | Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed . |
| 3 | As a project engineer , I 've been using a similar document for about the last six months . |
| 4 | ‘ They 've been gone a good while . ’ |
| 5 | Well but I mean , Brian was saying himself you know he ca n't remember at least he 's says he 's been working down London when he has n't been earning a hundred pound a day you know , it 's something , we just accepted it , he said over the years I 've been earning a hundred pound a day he says , and that was it you know yo yo just do . |
| 6 | I 've been dating a wonderful chick for two years now but she 's just too frigid , sex is out of the question so one night I masturbated and pulled too hard on the sensitive part of my penis , now the tissues around the foreskin are swollen and septic but I 'm too distressed and embarrassed to see a doctor and my f girlfriend wants nothing to do with me , I find it hard to urinate what can I do ? |
| 7 | Well I I 've been sent a local |
| 8 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 9 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 10 | I 've been given a hundred and fifty acres , Seb . |
| 11 | When you 've been given a fine brain like I have , you 've got to use it . |
| 12 | Kernaghan , who has actually won schoolboy caps for Northern Ireland added : ‘ I 've been given a big chance now to book my ticket for the World Cup finals in America and I 'll do everything I can to take it . ’ |
| 13 | And because they 've been given a tantalising series of glimpses of a fuller life , they 're aware and starving . |
| 14 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 16 | We 've been getting a wee bit of light in now in the mornings , eh ? |
| 17 | yes , yes , she 'll just have an or orange when I came out , she 's been , I 've been getting a few of those , it seems to help a bit |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been making a bloody exception in my case ever since I 've been on the corporate payroll ’ he yelled . |
| 19 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 20 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 21 | , so we 've been doing a few need a good wash |
| 22 | But I often find myself being far less nervous than the artists I 'm supporting , because I 'm so used to gigging ; I 've been doing a steady diet of around four gigs a week to support myself for many years , whereas they make an album then go out on tour every two years . ’ |
| 23 | But then , perhaps all chicks get to look like that , when they 've been raped a few thousand times . |
| 24 | I 've been designing a new collection . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been employing a similar battle plan in slightly different circumstances and I 've scored at least one tactical victory . |
| 26 | I 've been feeling a wee bit sick . |
| 27 | I 've been feeling a wee bit |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been driving a great deal in the States but it was either a Packard or a Studebaker . ’ |
| 29 | I mean , if I 'd thought there was something really wrong , I 'd have seen that you stayed at home — this makes me feel I 've been driving a sick horse or something " |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been running three or four miles every day for a week , and using a trampoline at home to build up my fitness , and I 've been keeping a close eye on what I eat . |