Example sentences of "[adv] they 've be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they 've been a bit disturbed once or twice , recently . ’ |
| 2 | What I 'd like you to do , is to try and put into words , what the main problems are at the moment , when they occur , where they occur , and how long they 've been going on for ’ . |
| 3 | No one even knows how long they 've been here . |
| 4 | Well it 's how long they 've been going , I suppose . |
| 5 | Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly ! |
| 6 | Perhaps they 've been in and done it now . |
| 7 | Perhaps they 've been made redundant . |
| 8 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 9 | So they 've been slimmed down . |
| 10 | Okay and finally erm are London boroughs erm yeah blank blank , eighty six election and the next London borough elections will be in nineteen ninety four so they 've been in nineteen eighty six , nineteen ninety and nineteen , they will next be in nineteen ninety four . |
| 11 | So they 've been here a long long while . |
| 12 | So they 've been working on modifications and this year , oh we will we 'll put the modifications right and then come back with another sales pitch |
| 13 | So they 've been used to their own rate and I said each time , if you 're gon na get you must tell them it 's the cleanup rate . |
| 14 | So they 've been about being erm |
| 15 | And they 've gone all , you see I have n't been eating them so they 've been in the fridge and they 've gone all soft . |
| 16 | In fact ever since the pair of them started going out together they 've been going on about having to find poor old Jenny a new man . |
| 17 | I I appreciate that point Mr , but as they arrived separately they 've been given different numbers er a as simply er a matter of administrative convenience . |
| 18 | Normally they 've been pretty good . |
| 19 | So far anyway they 've been excellent I must say . |
| 20 | Already they 've been the target of attacks from warring factions . |
| 21 | er but gradually they 've been building the workforce back up again , |
| 22 | I do n't think the theatre 's ever been endowed with a great deal of fundings but one or two companies in the town that have been prepared to fund obviously the one that strikes me is Gilbey 's cos the Gilbey bar I mean that was funded and like they 've been over the years they have given money even fact as a sad note cos Gilbey 's have actually demised now erm General Portfolio have actually taken on the role in Harlow of funding many things if you actually look all most things that have sponsored until recently have been sponsored by General Portfolio so they 've been to the fore in er fundering funding . |
| 23 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 24 | Despite being so ubiquitous , until now they 've been solely a male preserve . |
| 25 | Now they 've been given a derelict school building , gutted by fire , for their new community association . |
| 26 | Prisoners at Gloucester apparently became bored translating school textbooks — now they 've been switched to teenage adventure stories — to the delight of the pupils . |
| 27 | and I thought well I 'm not gon na eat them now they 've been out of bag , so I thought oh I 'll boil them up for dog |
| 28 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 29 | If this really does happen it would be a remarkable situation because up until now they 've been let out in dribs and drabs , they 're talking here about a kind of mass release are n't they ? |
| 30 | Avon and Somerset Police told us they 've been monitoring the situation closely , but so far they 've been unable to press criminal charges . |