Example sentences of "'ve been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been to fifteen funerals of my friends this year . |
| 2 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 3 | I see how I 've been losing : all the while |
| 4 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 5 | We both wanted to win , I said , and now we 've been saved from temptation . |
| 6 | ‘ Chinese and Western cuisines have very different styles , but since I 've been here , I 've realised that once chefs have the chance to exchange views and work together , it 's very easy to adapt to a new style of cooking . |
| 7 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 8 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've been framed ! |
| 10 | Yet this is twice they 've been here — first last Spring , and now for the New Year party . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Mind you , it 's the first time they 've been here , and if I 'm any judge it 'll be the last . |
| 12 | ‘ I think , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been forgetting something . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been stabbed in the back . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You 've been trying to ease me out , Charles . |
| 15 | Realistically , I 've been applying for the sort of job that will pay me enough money to keep me going when I retire . |
| 16 | I 've been difficult material to work with , have n't I ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 've been given this beautiful little picture as well , ’ I said , and I smiled up at him . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been very quiet about this , Dorothy . |
| 19 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I 've been a schoolteacher , a receptionist , a chambermaid , all sorts of things really . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You 've been in the wars rather , have n't you ? ’ |
| 22 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been very lucky , ’ I realized . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 26 | ‘ Dorothy , I 've been thinking . |
| 27 | Yes , we 've been expecting you . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been here before so I know a little bit . |
| 29 | We 've been so worried about you ! |
| 30 | We 've been really worried about you , you know . ’ |