Example sentences of "[v-ing] and [pron] 've " in BNC.

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1 That 's why I 'm so thankful that I 'm on the reading and that I like sewing , I like walking and I 've made some very nice friends within easy walking distance , I can go out and have a coffee with them , because I , while I 'm recovering from the agony 's of from the finance
2 So I 'm not creeping back for my job but anything erm it 's not that and erm But the lads in the lodge sometimes you 've got to and er I 've got a bit of er well a speery voice you know rough so sometimes I get a little bit of control on them and erm also as I said about these chaps that are working , erm we 're not blind , we know what 's happening and we 've got sympathy even with them .
3 These things are still erm happening and we 've still got some major problems .
4 To understand chemistry at all you 've got to have some idea of optics , for example , because you 're actually looking at the reactions happening and you 've got to appreciate what you see .
5 Your party , your other , never mind , and when that happens you get poaching and I 've always said , if you treat your membership properly they 'll stay with you , but you 've also got to remember that the union is in dire financial straits , or so it tells us .
6 So , he 's gon na go int insurance this morning , tell them that er bonnet 's still vibrating and they 've supposed to have done it twice and that , because of er ask them where he can take to have all these repair jobs done .
7 As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in
8 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
9 he gave me a number to phone and I 've tried phoning and I 've not had a response , but I 'll keep trying
10 There is no evidence that I 've finished , I 've finished eating and I 've finished my meal involve different senses of finish , so we must say that complete is a cognitive synonym of finish in only a sub-set of the grammatical occurrences of the latter .
11 Even the boring days outside when it 's raining and you 've finished the paper and you do n't know how you 'll last till bedtime are days to savour , compared to drying up in a cell .
12 Pedestrianizing and they 've never done it .
13 I 've never ever I say this very proudly , been in debt and as long as I 've earned enough money to live , I 've never bothered to put any on one side strict , you know , strictly speaking and I 've been happy to er live and er that 's how I 've lived me life .
14 down and , and may well be just one person requiring and you 've got somebody else to go down
15 Right , right I know what you 're saying and you 've got to be very very careful .
16 This lets you hide any application , whether open or minimised — great if the boss is coming and you 've got a game of solitaire on the boil .
17 We were this , just discussing the party here that we 're having and we 've now got twenty five guests you see .
18 I 'm taking numbers off of caravans where they 're letting and I 've been round and spoken to people who are in them caravans , and not one is happy !
19 Because it 's something I 'm doing and I 've just recorded all our conversation here
20 Mind you , once you get to the know the typewriter and that I mean you know what you 're doing and you 've done your R S A one .
21 Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there
22 Your Royal Highness , Ladies and Gentlemen my name 's Rod I normally masquerade as the Chief Racing Coach for the Royal Yachting Association but I 'm not here in that capacity this afternoon but the coordinator rather a grand title for the Year of Youth Sailing and I 've been asked to give you a short ten minutes or so briefing on where we 're up to with th this project this year erm I know there are many familiar faces around so I apologize to those of you that may know some of this information already .
23 I once made the mistake you 're thinking of making and I 've never got over it .
24 yes , well there 's a new shop opened near the showers market , erm new thing brick a brac its called , we 'll go in there its got , they keep advertising and they 've got one in Mayfield Road
25 No , but once you get yourselves decorating and you 've put your things out anyway
26 It 's two years since we 've done it so we 've got two years ’ worth of playing and they 've got two years ' worth of applause . ’
27 I 've probably been out playing and you 've probably been at the shops .
28 I felt that I was using a part of me that was n't used to functioning and I 've just recently started juggling
29 If you sold the whole of this that 's the earning and you 've got to do this excuse me , in three weeks .
30 She ca n't forgive me for leaving and I 've had to accept that our relationship 's finally over .
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