Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 I 've worked with a number of carpenters and joiners and come tea-break , we 've all sat there with our nice hot cup of tea/coffee and that gradual layer of dust on top .
2 Decisions decisions decisions — I 've never made any decisions on my own before , I 've just gone along with what everyone said .
3 Wow , he plays drums — multi-talented ! ’ and you 've just grown up with it and it 's no big deal .
4 You must think I 've just crawled out of my crib ! ’
5 ‘ You 've just come out on my side of the argument .
6 I 've only just started so he said er I 've just come down to you know .
7 No I 've just come back to it and I find my lunch box overflowing with crisp packets .
8 A and did you say it in the voice you 've just used now to me ?
9 I suppose , by saying this I 've already gone back on my word .
10 Do n't think you can get away with it just because you 've always got away with everything , since you set that nursemaid 's apron alight . ’
11 ‘ To signal like that was the smartest thing I 've ever come across in my life , and I 'll never forget it — ever . ’
12 ‘ You 're the most damned temperamental person I 've ever come across in my life . ’
13 All I 've ever got out of it are a few funny smells and the tap-tap of my father 's stick .
14 I ran out of printed business cards over a year ago , and I 've now run out of my stock of the blank cards ( which in view of my handwriting have a rather negative impact in any case ) .
15 ‘ If you were , you 've certainly made up for it since .
16 I 've never seen anywhere like it in my life ! ’
17 ‘ But I am allowed to say I was deeply disappointed , because he let things go on which I 've never seen before in my time back in England .
18 Stopped , just for five minutes , just to have a quick look , and now here you are , in charge of the stall of a woman you do n't know , a woman you 've never seen before in your life , and all because someone called Harry was n't to get away with something — And that man with blue eyes was watching her again .
19 ‘ And you 've never grown out of it , have you ?
20 I mean , when we lost to Sunderland in the 73 FA Cup , they 've never let up about it since , but noone mentions MUFC losing to second division Sheff Wednesday in the 1991 League Cup !
21 You 've never got up to your proper weight again since the — since — since you — you know . ’
22 I 'm ever so disappointed that I 've not been to Yugoslavia , I wanted to go to Dubrovnik , you know , it 's been on the sort of list but I 've never got round to it .
23 Introducing a lot of things they 've never had before in their lives I 'm afraid to say .
24 Not the police — I 've never looked up to them .
25 I 've never looked right through it .
26 Oh they , they say it 's all controllable so that I 've , I 've answered , I have n't just let the Environmental Health wash over me I 've actually written back to them again , er I 'll be interested to see whether I get a letter back from them , but I phoned up the Council this morning and they 're rejecting on two grounds , one is to do with the highway and the sort of the traffic situation coming in there , although the , the authority , the Highway Department are n't objecting to it and the other one is erm , on local environmental issues I think you know that is , is unsuitably , unsuitable environmentally to the area well I can only say that I 'm grateful to the planning , to the planning offices for they 're going out on a limb if you like because I think they 're on thin ice erm and so long as the committee will , will back them up I mean I do n't know of what else I could of done as a person
27 However , I 've recently split up with my boyfriend because of the pressures of failing to conceive .
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