Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [pers pn] 've been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 2 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 3 | I 'm 15 years old and I 've been with my current boyfriend for quite a while . |
| 4 | you know er , it 's funny since I 've been on a diet er , it is , I must be getting , now where |
| 5 | ‘ I always feel sort of furtive and illicit after I 've been with Sebastian . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 7 | ‘ After all that we 've been to each other over the years , Dane , darling … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 9 | You 've come and read me a bed time story when I have n't been very well and I 've been in bed . |
| 10 | Striker Atkinson said : ‘ I 've felt better since I 've been in the unit . |
| 11 | I mean once upon a time nothing was , but I 've spent two and a half thousand pound if not more since I 've been off work . |
| 12 | I 've smoked more while I 've been like this |
| 13 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 14 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 15 | AS ANNOYING as ‘ Sesame Street ’ but funnier when you 've been to Amsterdam and seen an ocean of techno heads pogo-ing like Zebedee on amphetamines . |
| 16 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 17 | What excellent company you keep in recommending Chambers — not all of them are quite politically correct but I 've been after the broadest sweep possible . |