Example sentences of "'ve been [adj] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 2 | Every day there 've been two to three flights taking off from Zagreb and flying across disputed territory to Sarajevo . |
| 3 | Sausage rolls or something Yes that 's er had a for that we cou we stopped there at I 've never been up that wa that way at that 's about the farthest north I 've been one of these coaches erm two , two , two or three times and er and er I 'd seen that Betty 's on er on television before . |
| 4 | We 've broken up , I 've been heartbroken through bizarre circumstances … but I still live with that person . |
| 5 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 6 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 7 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 11 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 12 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 13 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 14 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 15 | I 've been involved in direct mail ever since my first days with the Billy Graham Organisation in the early sixties . |
| 16 | Similar escapes in the past — there 've been 16 in 2 years — have prompted officials of the Prison Officers ' Association to suggest video camera surveillance of the blind spot . |
| 17 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been restless since that day at the docks , when we saw him off . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 20 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 21 | We 've been thrilled with this work experience cos was Dave originally had these five days off taping and he said no , he said , you know you 're so tired , have a little rest we 'll go up I 'll go up on the train only to get to the Selhurst Park he 's got four or five train journeys |
| 22 | ‘ They 've been besotted with each other more or less since they were children . |
| 23 | If you 've been self-employed since five minutes after Lucifer 's fall , and can fork out the massive outlay required , you might just find a way to bribe yourself on to the single-ticket waiting list ; if you belong to a small , minor-league organisation , your company will probably club together with several others to rent a cheap and jerry-built booth in one of the minor outbuildings , and argue with its partners over a tiny allocation of entry passes , whose holders will be consigned to overpriced lodgings in distant and inconvenient suburbs . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been busy on another plan . |
| 25 | for three weeks now I 've been stuck on eleven stone , I got , I lost nearly a stone in first five or six weeks , now I 've stopped |
| 26 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 27 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 28 | For three years I 've been wary of deep water . |
| 29 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 30 | But can you honestly say you 've been cold in this house ? |