Example sentences of "[pron] 've [been] [adj] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been good all week |
| 2 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 4 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 5 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 7 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 9 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 10 | You 're both hot right now and you 've been hot all your lives . ’ |
| 11 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 12 | I suppose you 've been charming that splendid lady Mrs Reynolds . ’ |
| 13 | Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day . |
| 14 | We 've been busy all day . |
| 15 | They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor … |
| 16 | ‘ They 've been ready this week past , ’ said Ednyfed Fychan , and swung to the door with alacrity . |