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Example sentences of "'ve [been] [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce .
2	We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said .
3	‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’
4	Shelley , you 've been here all day .
5	I 've been here all morning .
6	When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’
7	‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official .
8	we 've been here twelve hours
9	But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing .
10	I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down .
11	Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ?
12	You 've been here three weeks — I tell you , when it is three years you will run to the window with the rest of us . ’
13	I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off .
14	I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
15	‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’
16	Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’
17	erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er
18	But I 've been up all night .
19	I 've been up all night , thinking .
20	I 've been up all night working on these . ’
21	Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper .
22	I 've been up all night .
23	Now it er they said that this chap had g had gone to work after an illness and the boss said , Well er you 've been away six weeks , he said , There 's no job here for you now .
24	He tells us what 's been happening in Deptford since this morning , and it sounds like I 've been away seven months .
25	Mr Rivers , I 've been away visiting friends , you know .
26	well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with
27	You 've been very patient Mr .
28	‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative .
29	I deal with children all the time erm many of my I 've been there eight years now and so lots of children have passed through my hands who in particular have lots of educational problems and need special help , and I suppose somebody though erm that although the rage now is to have Governors who are working in industry , and that 's perfectly proper , that it would n't be a bad idea to have somebody who is supposed to have some knowledge and background of the way children behave and what children need , so erm although I do have some politics , you know , Bill , I erm largely keep them quiet in the governing body .
30	If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it .