Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] [adj] " 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 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 . |
| 9 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 10 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ I can see that you 've been made upset . |
| 14 | You may refuse to believe it 's happened to you : some people who 've been made redundant pretend everything 's the way it was and set off for work at the same time , then spend hours hanging around the streets , teashops or libraries until they can go home at the usual time . |
| 15 | That as they 've been made redundant , as they 've been victimized for trade union activity possibly , we then as a union decide that they can not stand for office ? |
| 16 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 17 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 18 | Mind , not everybody 's got the money to erm pay for jobs have they , today , if they 've been made redundant they have n't got the money . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 21 | Cos you do you 've not been anywhere unless you 've been made bankrupt in this place round here . |
| 22 | One in six patients in hospital in Britain are there because they 've been made ill by doctors . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've been acting weird ever since he started talking to me . |
| 24 | The S A S are already there and there are people that have been shot dead , unarmed people , civilians who 've been shot dead by the S A S. |
| 25 | turns , there , gets the header , Notts go in front , it was brilliantly made by and had the easiest of jobs and what a comeback it is , because Notts trailed by two in twenty minutes and now they lead three two against the side second in the first division table , who 've been run ragged in the second half , by a storming Notts comeback , brilliant , header . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 30 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |