Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I think it does have something to do with drugs , because if you look at all those Spiral Tribe people who 've just been on E for so long , y'know ? |
| 32 | My dear , we 've just been on the most shattering binge in North Africa . ’ |
| 33 | I 've just been at a two day conference at erm not very far from here , at Wisden House in which erm a number of erm top industrialists erm led by the former chairman of I C I have all unanimously been saying how bad they think it is for our future technological development and export development if overseas students get out of the habit of coming here . |
| 34 | People ring up about the match they 've just been to and complain or say who they think should be the next England manager , etc . |
| 35 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 36 | Yeah , okay , I 've just been to Asda so kids are on the way to put the bits of shopping in the van , alright , cos I got 'em some cereal and some bread and I 'll bring up the toaster , they can take the toaster with 'em for a while and oh there is , is there ? |
| 37 | We 've just been to Nursery . |
| 38 | No , we 've just been to B and M Bargains , Lyndsey said , oh God ! |
| 39 | I 've just been to the physio before I came here . |
| 40 | ‘ I 've just been with Michael Stein in Immigration . |
| 41 | Bet it 's all cos Nick is n't down there or something , no you 've just been with Nick . |
| 42 | ‘ I 've just been into the village to post a letter . |
| 43 | ‘ At parties , if people ask what you 've been doing and you tell them that you 've just been around the world , it stops the conversationd ead . ’ |
| 44 | Well , I 've just been round the tents and Lyons are hopping mad ! |
| 45 | That 's that actually I 'll do I 'll do th no I 've just been round most of those . |
| 46 | We 've just been in discussions with the manufacturers and we actually but we 're hoping to get a discount on that in the near future so we 're hoping the cost of that will come down . |
| 47 | I 've just been in the library , studying some of the books you recommended . |
| 48 | ‘ You 've already been to the Pentagon and the White House . ’ |
| 49 | I 've already been to Colin , placed my order , given him a deposit — and nothing 's happening . |
| 50 | They 've already been to the Jonquil because of Sabine 's death . |
| 51 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 52 | ‘ I 've already been in touch with the Secretary-General . |
| 53 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
| 54 | ‘ Well , I 've always been into all kinds of guitarists , ’ Guy explains . |
| 55 | Now of course it would depend very much on and whether you were in a drought situation as we were until last year or whether it 's like we 've been over this last summer and early winter which is that virtually not a day has passed without we 've had some rain , in which case obviously the roof is going to get cleaned up very much quicker but I have to say that although I 've always been under the impression that it 's not a good idea to save water off a new felt roof er because of deposits that come off the mineral felt . |
| 56 | I do n't even get on with my brother , we 've always been at different schools and I 've hardly spoken to him since he went to university . ’ |
| 57 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
| 58 | I 've always been of the opinion that opposition are there to be hated and abused . |
| 59 | ‘ I 've always been around dope . |
| 60 | Now when interest charges fall , the person who is buying the house benefits from the reduction in interest charges , but the person who is renting a house in local authority and then in this case nobody , nobody else in Harlow to rent it from , is faced with , not with a decreased monthly rental , but with an ever increasing one because as more and more Council houses are sold the cost of maintaining that there , the superstructure of the town , the cost of maintaining Council houses goes on increasing and so the burden is laid on the tenants and the tenant can find , will find himself that pound for pound increasing his rent while the house owner is decreasing his mortgage charges and at the end of the day the tenant is paying increased rent , increased rate and with nothing to show for it , erm , I 've always been in favour of a sale , of , of property er owner occupiers , but not at the expense of the people who can not afford to be owner occupiers , ah , to my mind , the present housing system is designed to maintain the existing class structure because even with the large discounts that one gets and nobody 's ever yet convinced me that why you should get a discount because you buy a Council house , but if you buy one privately owned you ca n't get a discount and it , there 's , this , this is so utter nonsense , but it is throwing a much heavier burden every time a house is sold on the remaining houses which are for rent , and so you that , although the idea is to make it a classless this society with more and more people owning their own properties the mo the mere fact that the majority of people in the town can not afford to buy even the reduced priced Council house , is an example that the , the system , the class system a division by income still exists . |