Example sentences of "i 've [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 32 | ‘ I 've been calling all afternoon , ’ he told her , ‘ There 's a faculty dinner . |
| 33 | 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 . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ I 've been hearing great things about you , great things . ’ |
| 35 | Oh , I 've been hearing strange noises up in the loft lately and I got up there to see what it was . |
| 36 | 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 |
| 37 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 38 | I 've been fighting this battle for four years and we 've eventually got there . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | I said I 've been waiting six months now , I 've given my life six months to wait for a job , I said , you ca n't get experience if you 're not given chances |
| 41 | and they say I 've been waiting seventeen years for this pollack , or having your tooth out or having your tonsils extracted |
| 42 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ I 've been working all night and I 'm worn out . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ I 've been working all night to get our ricks covered . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've been working this way for 18 months now and I 'm really happy with how it 's going . |
| 47 | I 've been giving some thought to the content of the next magazine with which I hope you can help . |
| 48 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of our magazine Rural Wales / Cymru Wledig , and I would like to persuade you to contribute the next Comment Column ( see page 2 of the magazine ) . |
| 49 | I 've been giving some thought to the next edition of Rural Wales/ Cymru Wledig , and to the contribution you could make . |
| 50 | ‘ I 've been giving some thought to our — problem , ’ he stated . |
| 51 | ‘ I 've been travelling ten years now . |
| 52 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
| 53 | I need to know that it 's necessary to remove all those trees I 've been told all sorts of things like they 're in pots and they 'll become pot bound they 're growing outwards they might fall down they might fracture mains they block off the er view of the church well I think they 're a nice asset in the city centre . |
| 54 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 55 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
| 56 | I 'm doing what I 've been doing all week really . |
| 57 | I mean I 've been doing outside jobs to get , you know , I mean , like doing festivals |
| 58 | That 's what I 've been doing six days a week for the last four or five weeks . |
| 59 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 60 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |