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
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