Example sentences of "'ve [adv] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've all been trucking along for so long on the back of the post-war consensus ( more growth , more production , more consumption , more jobs , more energy , more roads , more hospitals , more rubbish , etc ) , that most people are understandably reluctant to get off the treadmill — even though they can see it 's falling to pieces . |
| 2 | There was no comfort in that result , a vote against industrial action , even though it confirmed the suspicion that gone are the old ways of fighting the class war that we 've all been raised on and still have the power to excite me . |
| 3 | In 1985 , he claimed defensively , ‘ There 's black and white proof I 'm not the killer I 'm supposed to be , I 've only been sent off twice . ’ |
| 4 | Lord Mayor , I 've only been brought up under the National Health Service for thirty two years and I feel sorry for that poor doctor . |
| 5 | I 've just been filling in my books and reading all about it . |
| 6 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 7 | Ha , I 've just been looking around |
| 8 | From then on I 've just been going around from city to city causing trouble , more or less . |
| 9 | We 've just been going on timing it for one minute or something . |
| 10 | Because you , you 've just been going on about going abroad |
| 11 | I 've just been driven back from Covent Garden and I want to get to bed . |
| 12 | ‘ I mean I 'd really like to , but I 've already been shouldered out of the Nativity play . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've always been marked down as the non-violent type . |
| 14 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
| 15 | I 've always been brought up to be domesticated — to do the housework and dust and wash up and cook — so it 's a natural instinct really . |
| 16 | Well , er very good but erm last year I was very disappointed I did n't get invite , an invite to the old time musical which is most unusual , it 's the first time I 've ever been missed out , but I do n't know how it happened , our warden did n't have any of us invited , so I do n't know how it happened |
| 17 | That 's right Jane , I 'll be off to Culham Road shortly to cover the match between Abingdon Town and Brackley , Bracknell ; they 're playing in the Vauxhall League Division two south and some team news for Town — does n't read very well , I 'm afraid , mid fielders Kevin Connelly and Keith Appleton , they 've both been ruled out . |
| 18 | Then we 've both been stood up . ’ |
| 19 | They 've both been brought up in Ireland and the Bishop has taken them into his household . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
| 21 | In fact Leamington got a few things wrong , because they 've now been taken over . |
| 22 | Even here in EC1 , I 've almost been blown up twice by bombs , so you do n't escape reality wherever you go . |
| 23 | In any case , I 've never been called on to deal with anything like this before . |
| 24 | I 've never been shaved down there . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're talking about something I 've never been told about , and I did n't come here to find out . |
| 26 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |