Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only job I 've ever done was selling trendy clothes so I 've got wardrobes full of them . |
| 2 | Mining communities , the dock areas , Liverpool , all these people the only crime , the only crime they 've ever committed is to stand up for their rights . |
| 3 | And what we 've now done is put together a similar type of interview , but which is , as we said yesterday , a bat and ball situation , where I ask a question , he answers it , leaving the next question hanging if you like |
| 4 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 5 | What we 've briefly done is look at how we identify who needs training . |
| 6 | I 've never liked being forced into a decision . ’ |
| 7 | All we 've actually done is to say , right |
| 8 | Yeah , erm , I mean , I think , what you 've , what you 've actually done is identified quite a lot more areas than they , they had four , which which they did in in some detail , and they got the stories classified , erm , what you 've actually thought of , is is far more areas , which I think 's good , erm , and maybe other areas to consider as well . |
| 9 | If you get rid of royalty , he remarked , ‘ what you 've actually done is to pull the root out that draws up the energies in your ordinary personality from whatever is beneath your personality ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Possibly because the new ventilation system I 've recently supervised being installed in a factory in one of the Arab Emirates has proved so successful that I have orders for two more , or possibly because I 've just spent four weeks at full stretch in a very hot country with very little relaxation and deserve a holiday — but more probably because I own a majority stockholding in the company I bought cheap and built up to its present eminence , which gives me the position of chairman and managing director and full autonomy in deciding what I do , where I do it and with whom . ’ |