Example sentences of "[pron] 've be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 2 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 4 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 5 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 6 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 7 | I 've been trying that for me stomach since I 've came back |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been wearing those since I was a casual all those years ago , but they 're a sticks-man item , not mod in any way . ’ |
| 9 | Incidentally , I 've been reading some recent studies of Sardinian banditry . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 13 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 14 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 15 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 16 | That 's probably why I 've been getting low but it 's something funny . . |
| 17 | And I 've been getting all the |
| 18 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 19 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 20 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
| 21 | Because if they do n't know about it the mother or the father of that child will no doubt be coming along screaming I 've been getting twenty five pounds a week for the last ten years and I 've child on my own now . |
| 22 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
| 23 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 24 | I 've been learning that . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 27 | ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 30 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |