Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think you 've been watching too many movies . ’
2 ‘ I think you 've been reading too many thrillers , Superintendent . ’
3 " And you 've been reading too many novels .
4 I 've been gone just two days , and when I return you 're in a stranger 's clothes with a bandaged hand , and an odd expression on your face . ’
5 ‘ You 've been gone almost two hours . ’
6 That has a go , an attack , about everything because you 've been rejected so many times , so many times , and will continue to be rejected when we get the next election that you 're frightened to death to have .
7 Many times in this council when we 've been discussing more important points , when we 've been discussing the needs of people who have real needs , we have not been able to have our priority we have not been able to have our priority because we could not afford it .
8 We will have to , by law , respond to them , but you ca n't see the Children Act outside of the context of what we 're already doing with our other Children 's Services , as you know from previous discussions we 've had and from keeping track in the papers , over the last eighteen months we 've been recruiting more foster carers , reducing the number of children 's homes , developing preventative services rather than receiving children into care .
9 We have erm , managers of these funds who have a lot of expertise , a lot of experience , we 've been going over thirty years now , and we 've grown extremely quickly because of the expertise of our managers .
10 Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because
11 We have n't got to the reselling stage with these yet because we 've been going about six months so the first resale is eighteen months away .
12 Mining unions who 've been told even more pits may soon close say the government must do more to secure orders .
13 Kathie is all Nell has got , we 've been told this several times ; he appeals to Nell as the mother of their only child , not to cause her to leave home .
14 ‘ I 've been told more flattering things before , ’ he responded , semi-serious .
15 Erm I do n't know erm how it is like , as I say because I , I 've been left now ten years eleven , eleven in May er so erm I , I really , I do n't know what , how things are with the er with the employees really you know , but erm I used to enjoys my meetings once a month erm and I think everybody seemed fair , we got and of course , according to the Co- magazine that we have , that Focus , they always send me one of those still and er I mean , you 've got er , we used to have a good football team and I think they 've still got a sports team have n't they ?
16 ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department .
17 We 've been married nearly forty years .
18 It 's been a hectic schedule , because for the last 20 years I 've been playing about 300 gigs a year , including trips to the Northern Territories and the South West . ’
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