Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been watching him these past few weeks — spying on him , you might say — and I 've seen how he surrounds himself with cronies . |
| 2 | I 've been watching you these past few days , and you 're incredibly tense . |
| 3 | It 's a legal document … but they 've been telling me that all along . |
| 4 | The one I 've been telling you all about . ’ |
| 5 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 6 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 7 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 8 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 9 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 10 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
| 11 | It 's an , a small number of , of viruses which constantly shift , and the WHO organisation which monitors flu viruses around the world , is responsible for seeing that the vaccine is made from strains that are in circulation currently , and , and we 've been getting it right for the last ten years , so I , I think there 'll be no problem this year . |
| 12 | If we go back to the private 's utterance ‘ I 've been scrubbing them all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner ’ , we can relate it to these three layers as follows : |
| 13 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 14 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 15 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 16 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 17 | And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor , |
| 18 | I 've been spotting them all evening . |
| 19 | They 've been driving me mad ever since I moved in , but as soon as I come out with a gun they all disappear . |
| 20 | You 've been driving me crazy , but now I 'm going to have your body , and if it 's the last time then so be it . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Sweetheart , you 're so beautiful … you 've been driving me crazy … ’ |
| 22 | They 've been paying me thirty nine pound sixty have n't they ? |
| 23 | ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’ |
| 24 | I 've been giving him artificial respiration , and I think he 's going to be all right , but we ought to get him into shelter as quickly as we can . |
| 25 | I 've been giving him half of it . |
| 26 | You 've been hurrying me all the way . " |