Example sentences of "'ve [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 32 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 33 | ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low . |
| 34 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 35 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 36 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 37 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 38 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 39 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 43 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 44 | What time we were gon na be viewing houses but we 've been to see two . |
| 45 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 46 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 47 | I 've been learning that . |
| 48 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 49 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 50 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 51 | ‘ I suppose you 've been reading all about it in the papers ? ’ |
| 52 | " You 've been reading that hook , " Graham said . |
| 53 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 54 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |
| 55 | You 've been reading this place up . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 57 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 58 | ‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks-man item , not mod in any way . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ You 've been gone nine months . ’ |
| 60 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |