Example sentences of "i 've [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I forget that I 've been joking with her then she tells me off so I do n't bother any more . |
| 2 | I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been searching for ages . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been searching all over for you ! |
| 5 | Doreen hastened towards them , her face contorted with anger as she exclaimed , ‘ Silas — I 've been searching everywhere for you . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since I was a little boy , I 've been fascinated by acting in the cinema . |
| 7 | The only other twentieth-century example I have found is also from an Irish-born writer : ( 198 ) I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 8 | I 've been made scream with pain in other ways . |
| 9 | I 've been made to look an awful fool … so humiliated … |
| 10 | I 've been made redundant . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been jocked off . |
| 12 | I 've been sussed out . |
| 13 | I 've been stood out there ages ! — Anyway , why are n't you dressed yet , you lazy beggar ? |
| 14 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been headhunted by Hayward 's End — their village idiot 's moved to East Twittering ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Look , I 've been bounced around like a rubber ball between you people for a couple of months now . |
| 17 | And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format . |
| 18 | As for The Roches , we 've been big , big fans of theirs since way back — I 've been listening to them since I was about 13 . |
| 19 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 20 | I 've been listening , Sheena , to them talking about carers , now , since time began women have always been carers . |
| 21 | Of course I 've been listening , ’ Algy said to Len . |
| 22 | I 've been listening to you ringing the bell . " |
| 23 | I 've been listening and watching all day . |
| 24 | That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 26 | Er it 's really is to follow on from this debate that we 're having about what should happen if a shortfall occurs , erm and we 've heard , I 've been listening carefully to your views about er the way in which you agree with the Good Committee that a shortfall is an employers debt , the employers responsibility to meet that shortfall and we 've been talking about that shortfall should be met , but the Good Committee also concluded that er pensioners should not be regarded as preferential creditors erm and you also agreed with that . |
| 27 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |
| 28 | Ooh I 've been listening really carefully an I I ca n't even have a hazard a guess at this one . |
| 29 | I 'm a lawyer , and during the past year , I 've been teaching law in Southern California . |
| 30 | I 've been teaching . |