Example sentences of "but [adv] [pron] 've been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But latterly I 've been here very little ; in fact it must be at least fifteen years since I stayed here for any length of time … |
| 2 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 3 | But perhaps I 've been misinformed , like , for I understand you do n't read the Bible . ’ |
| 4 | But perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 5 | ‘ Necromancy , ’ he said , lowering his voice , ‘ Do you know , I never believed in that hoary old tale about necromancy sucking all the goodness and all the warmth from everything , but perhaps I 've been wrong . |
| 6 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 7 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 8 | But inevitably they 've been sort of thrown in a corner and people have fiddled around with them like I 've fiddled around with this and we find we got what , twenty or thirty of these missing . |
| 9 | I was originally going to do between one and 12 weeks on it , but now I 've been there two and half years , ’ she said . |
| 10 | But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing . |
| 11 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 12 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 13 | When we were talking just now before the programme started I think you said that you were n't sure that you 'd had a great deal of contact with the university one way or another , but surely you 've been surrounded by university people ? |
| 14 | but erm yes the garden 's alright but then they 've been there in the garden all the winter as well |
| 15 | From left the Virago team , Lennie Goodings , 20th year ‘ mascot ’ Ethel Merman ( ‘ Broadway has been very good to me — but then I 've been very good to Broadway ’ ) , Harriet Spicer and Fiona McIntosh . |
| 16 | ‘ No , but then I 've been thinking about the amniocentesis . |
| 17 | She said , ‘ I 've been trying to think about Wayne , but instead I 've been thinking about myself . |
| 18 | But recently I 've been thinking a lot about a person I see once a week at a club . |