Example sentences of "'ve [be] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |
| 2 | There was a bit in the paper today about er Ratners , in the Samuels outlet selling carriage clocks for three hundred pounds and claiming that they are solid mahogany cases , but as they 're chipboard with a mahogany veneer , and er they 've been had by the Trades Descriptions Act , three , who would pay three hundred pounds for a mahogany one anyway ? |
| 3 | You 've been had . |
| 4 | You 've been had . |
| 5 | Oh you 've been to have you ? |
| 6 | We 've been to have n't we ? |
| 7 | In recent months , I 've been having a lot of fun using a similar ‘ biological ’ approach to crack a certain type of code . |
| 8 | Jack said to Franca , ‘ We 've been having the most extraordinary time ! |
| 9 | ‘ And I 've been having attacks of vertigo , ’ volunteered Ray , with a hint of pride . |
| 10 | A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Ozone smogs ’ have become a regular feature of the hot and sunny summers we 've been having recently . |
| 12 | I said rapidly , ‘ I 've been having these dreams . |
| 13 | I 've been having to deal with electricity since the word go and I 've tried to use it in a musically creative and responsible way . |
| 14 | Q I 've been having my hair permed every four months for the past three years . |
| 15 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 16 | He praised the performance of 18-year-old Grant Watts , scorer of Palace 's first goal in a shock 2-1 win , and said : ‘ It was a night to enjoy after all the trouble we 've been having this season . |
| 17 | I 've been having a look at a twenty-bed hotel up near Windermere . |
| 18 | I 've been having discussions too , only in my case they 've been with the Hughes family who run Cheshire Restaurants . |
| 19 | My problem is that over the last 4 or 5 years , I 've been having my hair highlighted and gradually I feel that it has become too blonde . |
| 20 | I 've been having some quite intelligent guesses but no one 's hit the nail on the head . |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been having a nightmare , that 's all , ’ said Florrie . |
| 22 | I 've been having wonderful luck ever since May 25th . |
| 23 | All that expensive coaching I 've been having , and yet I 'm still no match for you . |
| 24 | I 've been having this thought all day . |
| 25 | I 'm 30 and I 've been having an affair for the past five years . |
| 26 | Aye , we we 've been having a lot of trouble with the people next door , and er |
| 27 | ‘ Simply to tell you that I 've been having a most interesting conversation . ’ |
| 28 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been having problems ? ’ she enquired delicately . |
| 30 | I 'm sorry , I 've been having one or two bad dreams lately . ’ |