Example sentences of "'ve be [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 33 | There is magnetism in romantic gestures that make you forget you 've been standing in the same place for half the day , that there is not a child in the house washed and you never got flowers from your 's truly . |
| 34 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 35 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 36 | There was a brief silence then Gerald spoke up : ‘ I 've seen the safe open several times since I 've been working in the business . |
| 37 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 38 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
| 39 | Yeah , they 've been advertising in the Echo |
| 40 | It was a red Transit , one of the new designs which look like they 've been punched in the nose , but there were no markings on it and the rear windows had been painted out . |
| 41 | It 'll be alright cos they 've been sealed in a plastic bag |
| 42 | Wash chopping boards , knives , other equipment and your hands after they 've been used in the preparation of raw food . |
| 43 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 44 | But as you say , switch off first and then still use a stick or something to get them away because it maybe the switch does n't work and maybe that 's why they 've been electrocuted in the first place . |
| 45 | They are not actually all that difficult , as we 've been finding in the teaching that we 've been doing where indeed we have students who take a ten week course , sort of once a week , and by about week six they 're already beginning to do that , they 're beginning to work out their own problems erm puzzles and games and little language understanding programs and that 's commonplace , actually . |
| 46 | ‘ We 've been caught in the middle a bit , ’ explains Billy . |
| 47 | But for those who 've been caught in the drugs trap … the campaign is out of touch with the real problem . |
| 48 | Sorry , I 've been laughing in the kitchen you see , that 's what it is ! |
| 49 | " Yes , they 've been entered in the book . |
| 50 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 51 | You 've been set in a certain class and no matter how your opinions change and you want to throw that class off , if ever a man does , it wo n't let him , it 's there in his voice , in his manner ; even if a gentleman was to take to the road he 'd still be a gentleman ; I mean , according to the kind of education he 's received , so to my mind that has become a kind of cage . |
| 52 | I 've been criticised in the past for being too close to the players , but when you 're coaching you have to have an empathy , you have to understand their worries and their weaknesses . |