Example sentences of "'ve [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 You 've been here two days now , and we 've still hardly discussed the divorce .
3 ‘ 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 .
4 You 've been here all that time ?
5 ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’
6 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
7 Shelley , you 've been here all day .
8 I 've been here all the time .
9 I 've been here all morning .
10 When you 've been here six months you 'll nae want to see another lobster in your life . ’
11 ‘ I 've been here 18 years and I am amazed at how many more conservation concerns there are today , ’ said an Iowa agriculture official .
12 One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is .
13 we 've been here twelve hours
14 But now I 've been here nine times and I ca n't go sightseeing .
15 I 've been here nine years in August and I 've cut no end of it down .
16 Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ?
17 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 . ’
18 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 .
19 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
20 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 .
21 ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’
22 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 ?
23 Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’
24 erm , how long we 've been here sitting tenants er
25 ‘ I do n't think you 've been altogether honest with me . ’
26 I 've been wonderfully self-aware .
27 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 .
28 I 've been pitilessly tender .
29 ‘ Meaning that you 've been heavily involved in a world known for its fondness for alcohol and drugs . ’
30 ‘ You 've been pretty useful altogether , Peggy , ’ said Rosalind , and Peggy nodded , very pleased with herself .
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