Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [pron] [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 | We 've been telling our chief executives that even though you ca n't get the sales then at least try to work on your working capital , try and get your working capital er , ratio down . |
| 5 | The one I 've been telling you all about . ’ |
| 6 | Please do n't say I 've been telling you this . |
| 7 | I 've been using it all the time . |
| 8 | And you 've been eating it all this time ! |
| 9 | I mean it would be nice , I 've been reading it this afternoon , it would be lovely Gary |
| 10 | You 've been twisted something rotten , |
| 11 | And I 've been bleeding her white ever since . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been given my marching orders . |
| 14 | ‘ Because I 've been given my marching orders , ’ Ellie said more shortly than she 'd intended . |
| 15 | You can renew your loan at any time providing you 've been meeting your regular repayments . |
| 16 | I 've been taking them all the time . |
| 17 | You 've been seeing your social worker regularly , have you , Vernon ? |
| 18 | The way we 've been getting them right ever since 1850 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been asking myself that question , ’ Jenna confessed , but all she got was another suspicious look . |
| 22 | You mean I 've been doing them wrong all the way ? |
| 23 | But they had sympathy for doctors in Sarajevo who 've been doing their best to preserve life with very few medicines or facilities . |
| 24 | The phrase ‘ I 've been doing it all my life ’ may mean ‘ in this role I am confident and feel fulfilled ’ . |
| 25 | Yes , I 've been doing it all evening , I was trying to suppress them all the way through politics lesson . |
| 26 | And they 've been doing it eighteen months longer than us . |
| 27 | ‘ Since 1968 we 've been doing our best to piece the fragments into a satisfying whole . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I take it you 've been attending your local ante-natal clinic regularly ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been minding my own business , ’ Midnight said curtly , putting his hand on Jess 's shoulder . |