Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] 've [adv] [been] " in BNC.
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1 | Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner . |
2 | Secretly I 've always been interested in the end of the world , the apocalyptic vision of someone like Ludwic Meidner . |
3 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
4 | I 'll go and stay at a hotel in some quite other place , somewhere I 've never been before . |
5 | Take me somewhere I 've never been before . |
6 | ‘ Then perhaps I 've just been unlucky with the ones I 've met . ’ |
7 | They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down . |
8 | Personally I 've always been into style and clothes though . |
9 | So I 've always been poor , and I have n't got any nice dresses ! |
10 | So I 've only been the once , |
11 | Or so I 've recently been led to believe . ’ |
12 | Kathleen , absolute brick to the end , has let me keep my season ticket for London so I 've still been able to pop down there during the day when I feel like it — and the rail staff at Colchester have been quite happy to let me have a break in my journey . |
13 | So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ? |
14 | ‘ Perhaps we 've both been a little affected by the way things have gone . |
15 | Oh so we 've already been had . |
16 | So we 've actually been moving in opposite directions er in the er in the two areas . |
17 | Perhaps they 've never been taught to write or how to handle criticism of their written work . |
18 | So they 've not been regular attenders since the age of fourteen or so and their dad and me have always been very tolerant . |
19 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
20 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
21 | Measuring by the impressive stint of ‘ Winona ’ in the indie charts , luck and genuine love is with Drop Nineteens , so maybe by staying away they 've just been incredibly clever , holding back 'til the slaying 's stopped . |
22 | The week 's gone so quickly I 've just been sort of , you know . |
23 | Well why not men go to the bleeding , er well it 's like I 've never been to a proper hen night , Gary 's been to a , a stag night , with female strippers , I 'd like to go to a stag , er a hen night |
24 | She was leaning over talking to him and saying something sort of like I 've never been so embarrassed in my life ! |
25 | When I 've been back home you 've always been at school . ’ |
26 | Now I 've never been on a camel before and these guys , I mean , they do n't wash ; just roll around in the sand . |
27 | Now I 've never been given any bother by the gays . |
28 | There 's Park Road there , now I 've never been down there |
29 | Now you 've just been describing to us Mr about er your leisure activities etcetera and it was sort of confined to the etcetera . |
30 | So far we 've not been it 's not been like this has it ? |