Example sentences of "'ve be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been in the wars rather , have n't you ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 3 | Self-employed John , 48 , from Dublin said : ‘ I 've been in the international scene for the past few years . |
| 4 | I 've been in his place , I 've seen what he 'd got . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been in love with new clothes ever since I can remember . |
| 6 | ‘ If you 've been in care most of your life , there 's nowhere you can go . |
| 7 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been in all morning . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ They 've been in the night and dug it up ! ’ |
| 10 | As she turned to serve the impatient customer she added : ‘ I 've been in palaces and kings ' houses , Mr Stone . |
| 11 | Those people who have had deep religious experiences often talk about them with a sense of awe — the feeling many of us have had as little children when we 've been in the presence of something powerful and magnificent . |
| 12 | Since I 've been in the East , I 've met many women — Egyptian , French , Greek , Jewish , Turkish , and English , too . |
| 13 | I 've been in research of one kind or another all our married life . |
| 14 | Then there was Octavia Hill ( ‘ I 've been in conservation for about two years ’ ) , Dr Barnardo , Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens . |
| 15 | I 've been in every conceivable situation in human existence . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been in almost NO conceivable human situation , come to think of it . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been in the habit of buying from various ‘ alternative ’ bookshops in a desperate attempt to support all of them . |
| 18 | When you 've been in London five minutes you never want to leave … |
| 19 | I 've been in London now for two months . |
| 20 | ‘ And I 've been in every one of them , ’ Maidstone said . |
| 21 | I 've been in this frame of mind for a long time , but no one seems to notice . ’ |
| 22 | There 'll be blue murder if he comes back and we 've been in here . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been snowing heavily all the time we 've been in the hall . |
| 24 | Clearly taken aback by the striker 's impudence , the referee replied ‘ I 'm Mr Fogg ’ , to which Gallacher speedily replied ‘ Aye and you 've been in one all afternoon . ’ |
| 25 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 26 | K. R. I 've been in tough houses — they would n't come out to help us but they 'd form a ring and let you fight — they would n't just all join in to back somebody up . |
| 27 | Then you are paid 1/80th of the average of all those years ' earnings , for every year you 've been in the scheme . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been in the snug , ’ came the reply , ‘ your mate 's in there with his new girlfriend . |
| 29 | Yes , I 've been in Cairo . |
| 30 | Whereas , none of the bands I 've been in have ever been showbizzy in that sense , and if we 're in a bad mood then we play really badly . |