Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 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 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 4 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 5 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 7 | We 've come to Jesus Christ , he 's forgiven us our sins , we 've been made new creatures , we are saved according to Athesians two eight . |
| 8 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 9 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 13 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 14 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 15 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 16 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 17 | People have paid deposits of $500 … they 've been paying weekly payments of $125 so it could be quite considerable but it could run to thousands of pounds |
| 18 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 19 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |