Example sentences of "'ve [been] [v-ing] there " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been hiding there for ages . |
| 2 | Department 's tend , eh , the actual service department are very much what I would call practitioner lead , you 've got just people there doing there job and there 've been doing there job for years , and that 's you know , there not , the very rare thing today , erm , thinking of policy sense about the way in which they could change that service , you just get on and do what they 've always been doing . |
| 3 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |
| 4 | ‘ You 've been sitting there the whole morning in nothing but that flimsy shift , just staring through the window at all that water . |
| 5 | You 've been sitting there for an hour watching the fire almost go out . |
| 6 | Emma , you 've been sitting there very quietly and judiciously . |
| 7 | Or some of the time I 've been sitting there in the bed feeding the baby , you know |
| 8 | They 've been sitting there for over a week |
| 9 | It 's had about ten or twelve names since I 've been going there , though some of them were just for one night , just for a party or celebration , and even then the name was never written up anywhere , you just had to know that tonight it was The Lily Pond , or The Jewel Box , The Gigolo , The Hustler , The Place ( no , I think that was somewhere else ) , Grave Charges ( I loved that one ) — or The You Know You Like It , I remember that year especially . |
| 10 | I ai n't been down there for about three weeks since I 've been going there . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've been lying there long enough , ’ he said curtly . |
| 12 | ‘ They 've been waiting there for ages , ’ said Gurder . |