Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [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 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mr Fernie , I gather you 've been making certain allegations about your neighbour , Mr Connon . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been making great progress . ’ |
| 17 | Er well it 's not a new thing , we 've be we 've been making ceramic ball bearings for a while |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 20 | There is n't er er there is no , people have gone because they 've been doing other things other than er . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 23 | Hence my association with Flip , because they 've been doing second-hand clothes for 20 or 30 years . |
| 24 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 25 | We 've been doing French art as well , so anyway it 's an afternoon out that 's what I |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Increasingly , as we 've been studying the problems of developing countries , two major changes have been occurring ; one in our own thinking that in many ways problems of developing countries are linked in extricably with things that are going on in Britain or Europe or other parts of the so-called industrial world , and secondly that as we 've been studying developing countries , we 've been finding that more and more problems in Britain and other industrial countries begin to look like some of the same problems that we 've been used to in developing countries . |
| 29 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 30 | And quite apart from the general interest they 've been fetching high prices . |