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 . " |