Example sentences of "'ve [been] " in BNC.
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| 31 | To you it 's just home , but to me it 's the place I 've been trying to get to . |
| 32 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 33 | ‘ Yes , I 've been making some enquiries about nightschools . |
| 34 | ‘ You 've been to a lot of trouble over this , Paul , thank you . |
| 35 | ‘ There 've been good things and bad things , but I 've survived . |
| 36 | Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun ! |
| 37 | They 've been a great help , actually . |
| 38 | If you 've snapped up one our handsome binders you 'll find , towards the end of the year , that because we 've been able to pack so many pages into Britain 's newest , brightest gardening magazine , things are getting , well , rather full . |
| 39 | And if you 've been watching BBC 's Masterchef series , the winning recipes are also in Good Food , on sale August 8 . |
| 40 | Said a lot of things I 've been meaning to for a long time . ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I 've been touching you with my eyes , ’ said Lucy . |
| 42 | ‘ Just I know you 've been busy and enjoying your friends . |
| 43 | I 've been really glad about that . |
| 44 | Because he never meant bitchiness , because he was kind like all good people who 've been hurt , he never minded . |
| 45 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 46 | ‘ I 've been married , ’ said Lucy . |
| 47 | ‘ I 'm going to get drunk , to hell , I 've been half drunk half my life , who gives a fuck if I 'm drunk again ? |
| 48 | ‘ You 've been like a YTS trainee for the past millennia . |
| 49 | ‘ I 've been over it for years . |
| 50 | I 've been so busy . |
| 51 | ‘ You 've been lovely to me . |
| 52 | ‘ You 've been with us , now , |
| 53 | ‘ I 've been selling patchwork for some time now , ’ she went on . |
| 54 | ‘ So , tell me how you 've been , what you 've been doing . |
| 55 | ‘ So , tell me how you 've been , what you 've been doing . |
| 56 | I 've been saving it . |
| 57 | ‘ I 've been telling Veronica about the week we had in Scotland . |
| 58 | I 've been asked to write about it and I said I 'd give it a think . ’ |
| 59 | ‘ I 've been wondering , now it seems , well , you 're leaving , why did you turn Socialist ? |
| 60 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |