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 .
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