Example sentences of "'ve be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , and the reason we 've got no morals is that for a long time ( 150 years ) we 've been at a loose end . ' |
| 2 | ‘ Sorry , but I 've been at it all day . ’ |
| 3 | But I 've been at it for 15 years . |
| 4 | I 've been at him too much about the clan 's honour . |
| 5 | ‘ Hey , Midnight , tell us what th 've been at . |
| 6 | I mean I 've been at meetings where they ( IMG ) have said ‘ We 'll hand you ( rugby ) a cheque for $2 million ( £800,000 ) for the year . |
| 7 | ‘ The first half was the worst we 've ever had since I 've been at the club . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been at sea a long time . |
| 9 | I 've been at a desk for years ; I want no more of it and I told them . |
| 10 | You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ? |
| 11 | He 's scored four in just five starts , and said : ‘ It 's been a good start but I still do n't think I 've been at my best . ’ |
| 12 | It may be a consolation for them to know that I 've been at the receiving end myself . |
| 13 | He said the area had ‘ an extremely unfair image because the majority of people on this estate want the best housing facilities and the best education for the children and that is certainly my view in the year and a half that I 've been at the school ’ . |
| 14 | This is then rotated and scaled , making the ‘ ball ’ appear to bounce in the out of the screen ( Sounds like you 've been at the loony juice again to me — Ed ) . |
| 15 | My standards have definitely dropped since I 've been at home with the baby . |
| 16 | Now I do this sir , because last week in the council of Christian and Jews in Edinburgh we had one of the profoundest meetings I 've been at , in which very distinguished people , Jews and er er Christians were concerned with the fact that anti-semitism , at the very bottom , is anti-God , it opposed to revelation . |
| 17 | I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it . |
| 18 | When I go back to the police station I 'll write today that I 've been at Harlowbury School all day doing a school visit and a school talk to different classes . |
| 19 | They 've been at war with us for three years , you see . ’ |
| 20 | " We 've been at it — He looked at the watch on his sinewy wrist with its furring of black hair " — like nine hours . |
| 21 | Well , this is the thing , we have a caretaker but er fo for his services , but I 've been at the council and I have got nowhere , I have from the corporation , there 's an awful lot of people complaining but they 'll do nothing about it ! |
| 22 | Anyway , the Wild Wood is seething with them , and in its endless darkness the beasties multiply ; they 've no enemies to control them , and they 've been at it for centuries ! |
| 23 | I 've been at bottom . |
| 24 | We 've been at it since six . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been at the top in television for a decade , you see , Blanche . |
| 26 | Cos it was due to sail on the same day , on the Sunday , you know what I mean and er it was these locks as I 'm telling you about and her a very , very famous firm and er my correspondence come from London because he had offices was there , you know and erm our erm I 've been at the service as I , if I might say so , but in most people it 's surprising how it get 's round and er the jobs that I 've had to do . |
| 27 | But we 've been honest with our people , we have not paid anyone off , in the fifteen years I 've been at , that did n't want to go . |
| 28 | Well , I feel better than I was , but I 've been at Haywoods Heath which was a religious community |
| 29 | I 've been at boarding-school since I was eight because my parents live abroad . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been at the Brooksby plant , ’ Rourke informed him briskly . |