Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [be] [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 2 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 3 | Then a friend asks if you 've just been chewing a clove of garlic . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've just been posting a letter for poor Mrs. Fanshawe , Sister , ’ she said virtuously . |
| 5 | I 've always been getting a shooting pain there that kind of happened and I just |
| 6 | ‘ We 've both been doing a bit of that — accusing each other of things that neither of us is guilty of . ’ |
| 7 | I 've also been collecting a whole load of old Electro-Harmonix pedals while I 've been on the road in the States , and they just sound so amazing compared to all these digital pedals ! |