Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think so far we ve been as good as gold , and can only maybe have offended Scum supporters … which can only be good : - ) ) ) ) |
| 2 | We walked past a tanker where a huge man named Andy Matthews was pumping vinyl acetate into a 10,000-gallon vat , wreathed in its sweet , sickly smell : ‘ I 've been here two years , ’ he said . |
| 3 | You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce . |
| 4 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 5 | You 've been here all that time ? |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 7 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 8 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
| 9 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 10 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 11 | When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official . |
| 13 | One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is . |
| 14 | we 've been here twelve hours |
| 15 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 16 | I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down . |
| 17 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
| 18 | You 've been here three weeks — I tell you , when it is three years you will run to the window with the rest of us . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been here three months but so far I have n't seen anything — I have n't had a chance , I 've had hardly any time off . |
| 20 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 21 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 23 | So do you feel that erm I mean I know that you 've been here twenty one years , and do you think women are more important or less important in the factory than they were ? |
| 24 | Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’ |
| 25 | erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't think you 've been altogether honest with me . ’ |
| 27 | I 've been wonderfully self-aware . |
| 28 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 29 | I 've been pitilessly tender . |
| 30 | ‘ Meaning that you 've been heavily involved in a world known for its fondness for alcohol and drugs . ’ |