Example sentences of "[pron] 've [be] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than twenty years I 've been part of the furniture , a constant teatime companion . |
| 2 | I 've been part of Jewish life — and so have Rainbow and all her kind , and all the other heretics and deviants and dissenters — far longer than your little cult . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been south of it all day . ’ |
| 4 | But also in the years since the Liberal Democrats ' inception , I 've been chairman of the Metropolitan Stockport Liberal Democrats . |
| 5 | I 've been bone idle ca n't keep |
| 6 | I 've been darling , I , believe me I 've , you ai n't got ta do it |
| 7 | Something I 've been sort of working on , sort of . ’ |
| 8 | No I , I have n't got any plans at the moment , you know I 've been sort of er I usually go around this time you know , er |
| 9 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 10 | I 'm actually , I am actually , I 've been party , they 've been circulating me with the correspondence of the residents ' association and I am very worried about this but do n't feel , until invited by the residents ' association , that we should do any more . |
| 11 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 12 | and I 've had three accidents and I 've been stationery every time , so somebody 's done something to me , so I 've had three |
| 13 | I 've been keep thinking that . |
| 14 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 15 | So you 've been shit stirring . |
| 16 | Hugh you 've been minister of the parish of Inverleith here in Edinburgh for the past seventeen years , and I understand you were one of the very first vice convenors of the Board when it was set up eight years ago having already served the church on the former Interchurch Relations Committee . |
| 17 | You look as though you 've been cry — ’ |
| 18 | And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land . |
| 19 | You 've been under-strain yourself over these last few weeks . |
| 20 | You should be , if you 've been party to extortion . |
| 21 | Oh you 've been self- employed yes |
| 22 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 23 | The Beta version of Ultrafax from WordStar/Zsoft we 've been pre-viewing is the link between your Windows applications and the rest of the world 's fax machines , but offers more than just the facility to print your documents remotely . |
| 24 | And certainly you know I mean Yona 's list now of support for this next rally we 've got on March the first is huge I mean it 's sort of and that 's not gon na go away is it you know I mean next year I do n't know what we 're gon na be up to but hopefully we 'll be supporting somebody else in their er struggle for fair play and that network will obviously come into play you know I mean I 've we 've been South Wales have said , Oh you know these are all our contacts you know some of the women in South Wales and in Deeside they 've said these are all our contacts and these are the people that were good and did the work and got the leaflets out and brought the money in you know and it 's as simple as that really you know . |
| 25 | We 've been Christmas shopping granddad . |
| 26 | . He would of , you look at the page , we 've been number eight . |
| 27 | But stand-in skipper McAllister took all this flak in his assured stride and said : ‘ That 's two weeks running we 've been rubbish because Graeme Souness tried to make out Liverpool were the better side after the Charity Shield . |
| 28 | For the last two weeks we 've been sort of fine tuning and now everything 's going to plan . |
| 29 | Yeah well I know that 's true erm and we 've been power fighting and that 's the problem |
| 30 | So far , however , every road that we 've been down has turned out to be blind alley . ’ |