Example sentences of "[pers pn] 've [adv] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I never went to any formal acting school — in fact , I 've probably just been very , very lucky getting all the parts I have — though for as long as I can remember all I ever wanted to be was an actress , and to be in the Theatre . ’ |
| 2 | ROS : I 've frequently not been on boats . |
| 3 | Oh , I was n't and erm , the next thing I know I 've nearly fucking been bowled over , sort of the bags in fucking look behind me , so those two fucking bought the bags back down fucking legs and I 've just caught this like running round another , another thing , I thought oh fucking little kid , the next thing I know there 's another one gone pass me like , taken the bags , the handles out of the plastic bags , fucking and it was a girl that was going first this time , so I and sure enough there was a little fucking brat boy coming again , so I just went flying he sort of looked up at me and rubbed his eye like that and carried on running after the . |
| 4 | Er I 've got two I 've just just been two schoolkids who are not doing very well and they the end of term they 've you know the teacher 's said they 're sort of very far behind and they need to do some work during the holidays . |
| 5 | I 've just now been singing . |
| 6 | ‘ Nelson , I 've just never been much of a dancer . |
| 7 | I 've also just been lent a political fiction saga by one of Mrs T 's former advisers which is said to be excellent . |
| 8 | I 've absolutely never been a Jason Donovan fan before Christmas number one 's going to be Bohemian Rhapsody which I do like you know |
| 9 | Doreen rose to the occasion by smiling radiantly as she said , ‘ I doubt that I 've ever really been far away from Silas — at least I know I 've always been in his thoughts . ’ |
| 10 | I 've actually never been as fit in my life before , I 've been erm you know , down the gym training erm every day and erm really sort of putting some hard work in and erm you know , I 'm in great shape . |
| 11 | And so I 've quite often been in Stromness and somebody said to me , how are you getting home tonight ? |
| 12 | I was on that , I mean I 've not been taking them all the time , I 've really only been taking them when I feel it . |
| 13 | I 've never not been seen by a kid . |
| 14 | I 've never even been to Highgrove , and that 's the truth . |
| 15 | I 've never even been to Scotland and my mother was certainly never chased by a Scotsman . |
| 16 | I 've never even been there . ’ |
| 17 | Oh yeah , well I 've never even been there before . |
| 18 | That 's true yes , I 've never even been there at all , let alone played there . |
| 19 | The overwhelming blackness , the cracking peals of thunder and the piercing flash and hiss of forked lightning ; I 've never since been in an alpine storm of such ferocity . |
| 20 | I 've never actually been to a Grand Prix before so I 'm really looking forward to it . |
| 21 | I 've never ever been at college after six o'clock , it was very exciting . |
| 22 | ‘ You know , it 's funny but I 've never really been asked this question before . |
| 23 | To me that 's really annoying because all you do is destroy your song and you turn it into a guitarist 's track and I 've never really been interested in that . |
| 24 | I 've never really been into fixing heroin . |
| 25 | I 've never really been , like , single single cos I 'm always sort of like , not actually going out with somebody but I 'm always , I 've always got someone who sort of fancies me or I 'm flirting with . |
| 26 | I 've been to lots of places , but I 've never really been to visit countries and experience countries and , except for France , perhaps . |
| 27 | ‘ I 've only just been elected , dammit , ’ barks one . |
| 28 | I 've only just been talking about what we 're going to do . |
| 29 | I 've only just been looking for since then . |
| 30 | Erm , no I do n't know much about it yet , we have n't I 've only just been told about it by a friend who I sit next to on the bus . |