Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've be [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 3 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 4 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 5 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 8 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 9 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 10 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 11 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 12 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 15 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 16 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 17 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 18 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 20 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 21 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been calling all afternoon , ’ he told her , ‘ There 's a faculty dinner . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Yes but to me it 's old stuff Brenda I mean I 've been hearing this kind of conversation in number between chaps coming in to mend things |
| 25 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 26 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 27 | getting increasingly frustrated on the subject of other things , pelican crossings and that I 've been concerned to hear since I 've I 've been requested this question and er it was briefly reported in the Cambridge evening news last night that they they 've had almost continuous telephone calls today complaining erm which shows the public as I thought of my own experience er are very concerned about this and would like to erm first of all bring it to the council 's attention and do regard as serious and ask the chair if there is a proper investigation will be made into the way the council handles this subject . |
| 28 | Erm you may , you may start to believe from what I 've been saying that federalism is a kind of sham , you know that it 's a that really states have lost significance viz a viz the federal government , federal government is now more or less a , a unitary state and runs everything , well that 's not true at all . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been working all night and I 'm worn out . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been working all night to get our ricks covered . |