Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [adj] [noun] " 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 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 3 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 4 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 5 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 9 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 10 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 16 | We got specific money , in other words , the government flagged up that in the first year , there were going to be infrastructure costs , and so there was a specific allowance made for that , and we 've been recruiting gradually , not all at once , over a period of time , as the numbers of people coming into the community care system rise , we 've been recruiting new staff there . |
| 17 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 19 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |
| 20 | I mean these people have had a pay freeze since November nineteen ninety and these grievances were as a result of a new pay structure last year that actually worsened the terms and conditions since nineteen ninety , but till then we 've been making steady progress in getting better improvements and we 've gone backwards . |
| 21 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 22 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 23 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 24 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 25 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 26 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 27 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 28 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
| 29 | I know you 've been told different people different things . |
| 30 | 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 |