Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 've [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | BECAUSE DUDLEY MOORE has been told to turn up at his restaurant at Venice Beach , California at 2.30 pm to tell me his version of the story of his life , then Dudley Moore more or less dudleys into his restaurant at Venice Beach , California and joins me at a corner table where I 've been waiting to hear his story . |
2 | You 've got all red eyes there where you 've been crying . |
3 | Where we 've been doing comparable work on er the Kings Cross Project , we wer we told by the old project team that we were very much cheaper than Birmingham . |
4 | ‘ Not on a degree course but at the Cultural Centre for Foreigners where they 've been going since last September . ’ |
5 | Where where they 've been bombing it |
6 | Although I 've been writing about the latest machines this month , I shall be including the older models in later articles . |
7 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |
8 | I like to show people I 've got guts , although I 've been scared at times . ’ |
9 | There does n't seem to be much of it about , not even many DFs , so I 've been trying to stock up lately . |
10 | I 'm told Madeira is an experience not to be missed , so I 've been coerced . ’ |
11 | ‘ So I 've been grieving for him . ’ |
12 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
13 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
14 | Fortunately , I had my suspicions about it right from the start , so I 've been working closely with the police to help clear it up . ’ |
15 | ‘ So I 've been turning to simpler guitars , guitars that limit you , but that limit you in interesting ways . |
16 | ‘ I had this anonymous tip-off about a man answering your description , the caller said something about a missing member of the aristocracy , so I 've been keeping an eye on things . ’ |
17 | Car oil , so I 've been told , is their tipple . |
18 | ‘ So I 've been told often and oft , ’ and he gave a sigh . |
19 | ‘ And compliments , so I 've been told , oil the wheels of life . ’ |
20 | ‘ So I 've been told . ’ |
21 | ‘ So I 've been told . |
22 | ‘ I did think , ’ David began , as they moved away , ‘ there 's a nice little restaurant just opened in Tewkesbury , not far from the Abbey — cosmopolitan sort of menu , so I 've been told . |
23 | That 's why I asked for him rather than his partner who is , so I 've been told , both charming and susceptible . ’ |
24 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
25 | If you love ‘ im , Maggie , treat yourself better than you 've been doing . ’ |
26 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
27 | It would come up in the conversation all the time , ‘ So you 've been separated from your husband and you have no boyfriends ? ’ — No — ‘ Are n't you interested in having boyfriends ? ’ — No — Because she was man-mad she could n't understand why I was n't . |
28 | So they 're not sheltered , they 're purely residential , units of residential accommodation , so you 've been asked to look at a at an application for , for a completely new residential block on the same grounds as was occupied by forty seven sheltered units . |
29 | ‘ So you 've been describing us , have you , David ? |
30 | ‘ So you 've been paying this other man for three months . |