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 ?
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