Example sentences of "'ve been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 3 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 4 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 5 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 7 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 8 | That 's what we 've been asked this morning . |
| 9 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 11 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 12 | Hinting at his two-year prison term on assault and weapons convictions , Brown said , ‘ With all the success I 've had , I 've been broke four times because of ignorance . |
| 13 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 14 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 16 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 17 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 18 | And you can add to that the fact that a number of districts er have said that they 've been consulted five times by the County Council er on various erm population projections . |
| 19 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 20 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 21 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 22 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 23 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 24 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 25 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 26 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 27 | He interrupted her thoughts and showed he was himself still on the same track , for he observed , ‘ I 've been called many things in my time , but never a bully , or , ’ he frowned again , ‘ a megalomaniac out of a horror movie . ’ |
| 28 | Must be doing litres for about twenty years , and I 've been retired ten years . |
| 29 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 30 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |