Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [been] [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being an inveterate story-teller , Mira is quick to remark on the degenerate effect the dominance of the media has on personal development : ‘ Gradually all our secret treasures have been removed and we 've all been made to share the same abstracted and alienating public knowledge ’ ( 111 ) . |
| 2 | About eighty per cent of the users are students and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other , and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books , they can look them up by title , by the title of the book as well as by the traditional author approach , and when they 've found it the computer tells them how many copies are in the library , or whether they 're all on loan . |
| 3 | About eighty per cent of the users are students , and they 've normally been told to read this , or read that , or read the other and if they now use one of our computer terminals , which has got a little video screen on the top and a little keyboard , they can look up the books . |
| 4 | You 've just been made to sit in this room for three hours . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 6 | Your back was patted ( not stabbed ) and you 've just been told to invest some company money in some brand new metal . |
| 7 | I 've just been told to move you , which is what I 'm doing . |
| 8 | We 've , we 've just been told to write it about either kidnapping or erm about the thing that I told you |
| 9 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
| 10 | We 're going to cover press releases , a very important way of feeding information into the media generally , and there I 'm glad to say you 're going to do a lot of the work — you 've already been primed to do your homework , I hope you have — and you 're going to do work from group and we 're going to work with you to see whether we can sharpen up some of these press releases . |
| 11 | I 've always been fascinated working in Japan , because you do n't take any parts , that erm they would just argue it out until somebody says well this is what we should do and everyone says ‘ Yes , that 's right , that 's what we should do ’ you see , so that erm there are all sorts of ways of doing this . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , they 've always been pushed to explain why an omnipotent God permits Evil … ’ |
| 13 | ‘ But let me tell you — both of you , ’ darting a venomous look at Major Calder , ‘ that this is without doubt the most degrading and distasteful thing I 've ever been asked to do ! ’ |
| 14 | God knows I 've often been tempted to do without it and go into service ; it 's where I started . ’ |
| 15 | They 've even been known to have words in the piazza . ’ |
| 16 | Perhaps they 've never been taught to write or how to handle criticism of their written work . |
| 17 | But I 've never been tempted to change my mind . ’ |
| 18 | Well increasingly , of course , they are English words and that 's because , increasingly , we are getting closer and closer to erm expressing intention , and the thing about language , you see , is that it was designed by nature to be a vehicle for intention , and that 's what we all secretly know , but in fact we 've never been helped to think about it . |
| 19 | I 've never been known to overspend my budget , Bill . |
| 20 | Or so I 've recently been led to believe . ’ |