Example sentences of "'ve [be] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | In seven years driving a cab this is the first time I 've been done for anything . |
| 2 | and you may find that they 've been done and they 'll be posted to your branch so they will be there when you get back on Monday . |
| 3 | on an underground train which could n't decide if it 's going to move or not , it did eventually move I got a taxi at one point and I was so sick and tired and they put me outside Liberties , I gave the man a twenty pound note and he gave me change for a ten yes , coming back from Oxford Circus from Liberty 's , I thought I 'd better economise , I 've been done out of ten pounds , I do n't think it was dishonesty I think it was just sheer muddle , I , I 'm ten pounds down , I 'm must cut down a bit , so I will come back underground from Oxford Circus to Waterloo to get down to and you 've guessed it , I got into an , an underground train which would not move , it simply stuck , and it would go chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , chugga , then it would stop in the tunnel for a while , while its . |
| 4 | Probably cos they 've been done that much . |
| 5 | Mm I say probably cos they 've been done . |
| 6 | they 've been done for many years |
| 7 | the times I 've been done down in my life it 's been mainly by the white people ! |
| 8 | Erm , Joan and Sheila very kindly volunteered to wash all the curtains in here and they 've been done . |
| 9 | I 've been done and Bill 's been done . |
| 10 | It 's easier once you 've been done . |
| 11 | Actually it 's easier once you 've been done cos then you have an appreciation of what 's |
| 12 | They 've been done , have they , they have n't been circulated , but they 're available . |
| 13 | ‘ So , tell me how you 've been , what you 've been doing . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been doing Bona-Fido for about two years but still get some guests who do n't realise they could have brought their dogs along , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been doing that . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ In the seven years I 've been doing this , there 's never been anything like it . |
| 18 | They 'll let me in. — I 've been doing for her for years . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps I do know your potential , through the work we 've been doing , but you 're not a computer : you have autonomy . |
| 20 | It 's difficult to explain , but I know I 've been doing some thinking about my obligations to my parents , about where I 'm coming from and where I 'm going . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been doing very little , but the usual things have been happening all around me . ’ |
| 22 | I 've been doing my own story all afternoon , and I had to cover the opening of a new computerized diagnosis unit out at Barnet on my way back from the Sillick Memorial . ’ |
| 23 | After all , they 've been doing this longer than you have . |
| 24 | It depends first on what you 've been doing in those 29 years , whether you 're willing to get new skills if necessary , and finally , how persistent you are in your job search . |
| 25 | We 've been doing it so long now ( a good ten years , maybe ) that we have turned into what we do . |
| 26 | They 've been doing so since bathing machines first appeared on Long Island in about 1794 . |
| 27 | ‘ Darling — tell me what you 've been doing . |
| 28 | You mean to say you 've been doing everything ? ’ gasped Breeze . |
| 29 | ‘ You look very pale , ’ she went on ; ‘ you 've been doing too much , my dear . |
| 30 | ‘ You 're a bloody good photographer and the work you 've been doing for the last five years proves it . |