Example sentences of "i 've [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 2 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been sent some stuff by Chris who used to run Harlow group . |
| 4 | But I 've been buying more icecream and that . |
| 5 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 6 | no , you s I 've been trying all morning . |
| 7 | ‘ You know , ’ he said , raising his head , ‘ I 've been reading these reports concerning the IRB for the past two years , and have occasionally succeeded in extracting useful information from them . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 9 | Or , I 've been scrubbing all morning and they wo n't come any cleaner . |
| 10 | I 've been coughing all night ! |
| 11 | I says , I 've been coughing all night . |
| 12 | I 've been getting several complaints from readers and viewers about the quality of one type of coconut fibre currently on sale . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 15 | I 've been taking this pain under my armpit and it 's kind of under back . |
| 16 | I 've been taking it continuously for two years , and I want to stress that I 've been taking eighty milligrams a day , |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been taking acting lessons at the David Bowie Academy . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ But I 've been recommending such improvements for years . ’ |
| 19 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 20 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 21 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 22 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 23 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 27 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 28 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 30 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |