Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've been [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I will once you 've been upstairs to change your clothes . |
| 32 | ‘ And what about that beautiful old house you 've been unaccountably made responsible for ? |
| 33 | You 've had more than enough time to tell me , and by keeping quiet since we met again you 've been effectively lying . ’ |
| 34 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 35 | " Well , if you feel you 've been unfairly dismissed , " Starke said , you can go to the — " |
| 36 | ‘ A paragraph or two would do it , make it clear that you 've been unfairly treated . |
| 37 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 38 | Now , sixty one of you said you liked it and you 've been meekly listening to this wha er how would you reply to , to all those various views ? |
| 39 | And the next time you buy something from a shop and find there 's something wrong with it do n't just jump to conclusions that you 've been deliberately cheated . |
| 40 | So it seems that either you are lying as I first suspected , or you 've been deliberately misled . ’ |
| 41 | Cleansing and re-applying make-up can irritate the skin if you 've been fully made up during the day . |
| 42 | ‘ Come off it , you do consistently well in all your modules — I 've had a word with your course tutor — and as you 've been continually assessed , you could n't flunk now even if you wanted to . |
| 43 | I think when you 've been once burnt — or in my case , four times burnt — then you have to be a bit careful . |
| 44 | Yeah , you know why do n't you because that side bits down the back , he probably thinks you 've been bloody fiddling with it . |
| 45 | Yeah , what about the fucking night that we did two and a bit hours and the other little bits and pieces that we 've been fucking doing it , |
| 46 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 47 | ‘ We 've been completely ignored for a long time , which has been a pretty good thing because it 's given us time to develop , ’ beams Brett . |
| 48 | It was only the second time this season we 've been comprehensively beaten . |
| 49 | We 've been greatly flattered by your generous hospitality on board . |
| 50 | So we 've been systematically checking out all the other bars in the city . ’ |
| 51 | the , the way we , the way I look it see , the way we 've been cut and slashed , and I 'm not just talking about high schools and first schools or anything right we 've been destroyed , we 've been literally thumped into the deck . |
| 52 | Here you go , and they 've been slightly redone by Ian be for the accountants you know . |
| 53 | Economically and politically , they 've been completely disenfranchised . |
| 54 | They 've been completely forgotten about . |
| 55 | They 've been completely forgotten about . |
| 56 | But they 've been carefully worked out , so that everyone is happy . |
| 57 | British Champion Colin McRae pushing everything to the limits … it requires rapid changes through the gear box … even when cornering … now in the Banbury factory of Prodrive engineers have spent 18 months developing a semi-automatic gear box … they 're already becoming common in Formula One … now for the first time they 've been successfully introduced in a rally car … with just a touch of a button the driver can change gear without having to take his hand off the steering wheel . |
| 58 | Fifty three people have said yes , they 've been physically abused . |
| 59 | But today , angry customers like Banbury businessman , Michael Cratchley , who forked out £4,000 for a holiday in France , say they 've been badly let down . |
| 60 | Common cause has been established between all the charge-capped authorities , they all believe that they 've been unfairly treated , and they 've all agreed to pursue a common search for remedies to the plight in which they find themselves . |