Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [pron] [det] " 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 'm thinking of buying myself some ice skates , I 've been promising myself those , just , you know over the last few years when we have had a , just a bit , mind you there was one year about six years ago were n't it , where we were
10 I 've been taking them all the time .
11 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 :
12 ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look .
13 The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ .
14 Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson .
15 I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’
16 ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder .
17 And I 've been up till , I 've been paining me all night Doctor ,
18 I 've been spotting them all evening .
19 ‘ I saw you — turn on to the road — from the station — and I 've been following you all this way ! ’
20 I 've been giving him half of it .
21 You 've been hurrying me all the way . "
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