Example sentences of "[conj] i 've [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
2 | ‘ So I 'll get clobbered if people read suddenly in the Daily Mirror that I 've been giving some away . ’ |
3 | Aye , but I mean I notice it , it 's just that I 've been doing that job that longly you see , you follow me ? |
4 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
5 | And I 've been getting all the |
6 | But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers . |
7 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
8 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
9 | I 'd like to know why it 's so important to you , and I 've been doing some thinking . |
10 | just a little shop they were five pound ninety five and I 've been paying seventeen pounds and would you believe they 're made in England ? |
11 | I have n't exercise like cos I have n't I have n't hardly I 've just er doing everything like , and I 've been working hard but |
12 | ‘ It … it 's just that life is so bloody and I 've been carrying this dreadful emotional weight around with me since Seville and I want rid of it . ’ |
13 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
14 | ‘ Carrington , I must admit I never much believed in any of this malarkey , but it looks as if I 've been proved wrong . |
15 | But I 've been getting faster as the years go by . |
16 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
17 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
18 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
19 | ‘ But I 've been doing this job for so many years , I 've probably been playing the odds too long . ’ |
20 | But I 've been offered several million for it . |
21 | I 've always shaved my legs but I 've been told that shaving makes the hair grow more strongly . |
22 | I ai n't been to no doctor 's , well I 'm lying I had to go again , I had to like because I 've been getting these here bloody , I must 've had them ten or fifteen year or more and , cos I 'm on these here tablets now for the old stomach like , and that like . |
23 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
24 | I will , because I 've been recording all this . |
25 | Cherry stopped him and said what you doing she said George this old man he 's said I 'm going to give this to the manager like he said because I 've been brought all these trolleys back . |
26 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
27 | Now you are actually going to be guinea pig for me because I 've been doing these for about ten years and I 've decided for ten years is getting perhaps a little stale . |
28 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
29 | It 's wandered to every lass in Mull and Morvern while I 've been carrying this babe for you ! ’ |
30 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |