Example sentences of "have been [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here . |
2 | He said , well you see I 've been smoking . |
3 | I see I 've been slipping up a bit . ’ |
4 | P.P.S I see they 've been feeding Mark H on the raw meat again : - ) ) ) How did ‘ Antiscum United ’ go on over the weekend by the way ? ? |
5 | But I mean it could 've been made a bit bigger than that could n't it , for the seat |
6 | ‘ Ted would 've been lost without me , ’ he boasted . |
7 | They 'd dived , you see , but eventually they had to surface — the air must 've been getting bad — and up they came , drew nearly alongside a German destroyer the pack had left behind when they called off the hunt , waiting there , just in case Taureg surfaced . |
8 | " I see you 've been getting him a new collar and lead . " |
9 | See I 've been getting a kind of rash on my face |
10 | Yeah , this drug could 've been developed and refined and er gone into a lot further , but they did n't . |
11 | What Mr Sutherland can 've been thinking of , I do n't know . |
12 | ‘ I think it must 've been hit by a car , ’ he said . |
13 | He was looking at the ground , he seemed to be concentrating ; he might 've been trying to remember something . |
14 | who was sitting in the audience who is a nurse and er would 've known and she would 've been trying to get in and say this is not true . |
15 | See I 've been spoilt really |
16 | Well we see we 've been saving the stamps so we had believe it or not |
17 | Yeah and she gets points for doing it do n't you , you 've been saving them up have n't you ? |
18 | She might 've been calculating something . |
19 | Well you see they 've been brainwashed to that sort of music so they 're bound to , bound to like it . |
20 | Ah yes , well you see , you see , in effect if you called her an old , that could 've been , that , that , that , that , that , that , that could 've been eh , that could 've been eh , that could 've been , you know , you could 've been given her a , that could 've of been a praise , you old cow . |
21 | It is capitalist , and everybody will , would 've been given their own land . |
22 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
23 | We would 've been revising had we not been here . |
24 | It 's just as well Paul did n't go with him , cos Paul would 've been singled out as well . |
25 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
26 | In the past it might 've been written off as artwank . |
27 | The Beach-heads hear they 've been cursed by a Swells SOTW |
28 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
29 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
30 | A little bit I think that he was just concerned that perhaps there might 've been other people who might 've wanted to come and if people had rung up and you had had a waiting list something could 've been done about it |