Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] 've be [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 So I 've been onto the bastards today and I said like twenty one days is up and I 've I 've got like twelve hundred pound you know .
2 I said so I 've been to a local firm and he said well if you 'd wanted a job we could 've found you one , so I went to the Co-op and I went in the credit , working in the Co-op credit and er went from there to .
3 We 've been in we 've been in the estate agents and
4 And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft .
5 I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding .
6 ‘ I was thinking that whenever I 've been into a student 's flat there was a different atmosphere … a lot of things pinned up on the walls , for instance posters mostly … ’
7 However , ever since an incident with a chicken which resulted in a bald-arsed chicken and a dog with a mouthful of feathers , I 've kept him on a lead whenever I 've been near a farmyard .
8 Well , I 've , I did n't look er erm I can see deficiencies in what I 've done now you 've been through the other
9 Well I 've been on a ship and I 'm not very well !
10 Well I 've been in the Daily Mail 's office , presumably much the same .
11 Just even I 've been for a wee !
12 Well you 've been through a mad , I mean
13 Well you 've been to a singing one .
14 Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ?
15 But since then I 've been on a unit of tropical forestry in Oxford Forestry Institute , and I 've been travelling regularly , almost yearly since I 've been there .
16 Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing .
17 Sometimes I 've been on the verge , but then the reeling vanished . ’
18 patches and you do n't know why , maybe you 've been in the garden or something irritates you , you 'll find that camomile will c soothe and calm that down .
19 I 'll tell the tax people about how you 've been on the fiddle all these years over your freelance earnings and I 've got those photos of you .
20 Then we 've been round the Carlsberg brewery at Northampton
21 Twice they 've been with a cart , and Miss Theda let them take it all without a word said ! ’
22 ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault .
23 ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday .
24 And this is when you 've been on the receiving end of it .
25 Now how many of you here have been in situations where you 've been behind a pedal cyclist and you 've been tempted , I 'll not say you 've done it , but you 've been tempted to go past ?
26 That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold .
27 Flap jacks do n't appear to be cooked and yet they 've been in the time they should have , I do n't know what 's happened , there you are there 's your drink do n't knock it over
28 That 's why they 've been to the baths .
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