Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] 've [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
2 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
3 | Or so I 've recently been led to believe . ’ |
4 | Oh so we 've already been had . |
5 | So we 've actually been moving in opposite directions er in the er in the two areas . |
6 | Perhaps they 've never been taught to write or how to handle criticism of their written work . |
7 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
8 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
9 | I 'll tell you why cos the B B C there 's a directive just gone out I 've just been informed the B B C for quiz show hosts on the B B C to treat their guests with a little more civility . |
10 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
11 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
12 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
13 | Now they 've obviously been exported to this country . ’ |
14 | You may have to say , Well I 've just been talking to the estate agent about this and er you know on a number occasions he 's sent people along to you er may be you did n't realize that was happening . |
15 | " Take the Tran family over there who 've just been introduced to your father , for instance . |
16 | Then we 've both been stood up . ’ |
17 | ‘ You know , Pip , ’ replied Joe , ‘ how we 've both been looking forward to working together . |
18 | I mean I 've got some indications in er a couple of books I 've got in the car , er but erm again I 've not been asked that question you know , what 's the bullion return , things like that , it 's , it 's a little bit out of the ordinary , but you can find the figures . |
19 | This may be an odd thing to say when you 've only been married a month , but it 's true . |
20 | But to be where you 've always been makes it easier . |
21 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |