Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [be] [prep] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 We 've all been through it and we know what pain 's about . ’
2 We 've all been through it .
3 We 've all been through the war .
4 You realise they 've all been at it a lot longer than I have .
5 ‘ We 've all been in trouble with the police and all that malarkey , but that 's all part of growing up .
6 The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’
7 ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’
8 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
9 Now some of you , if you 've only been with the company a few months or whatever it was , may not have noticed too much of a change , er , but I 've noticed a bit of a ch , I 've noticed a tremendous change in two and half months , two and a half years , and there 's some people in the room who must have noticed tremendous changes .
10 It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day .
11 ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says .
12 They say that hunting 's for er er human pleasure , er , I mean personally I 've only been to one hunt , and I do n't see what all the the , the , the , the trouble 's about because the huntsman is only a spectator , it 's the hounds that are hunting the fox and it is to keep the foxes down .
13 I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call
14 I 've only been to a couple of lodge meetings it I was invited to go to I always felt slightly ambiguous about that really you know .
15 Well we 've only been to the dentist here .
16 ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before .
17 I 've only been in your bed with you once and then you were as jumpy as a cat thinking that sister of yours might come back unexpectedly .
18 The Upside Down Catfish tend to nip one another as they swim round the tank — they 've only been in the tank for five days , so would the nipping be due to the fact that they 're still settling in ?
19 So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ?
20 ‘ I 've only been in once .
21 This was very common in the past and I 'm sure many shop stewards here who 've dealt with redundancies in the past , know about the poor members who get quite a nice lump sum redundancy , but in fact , they 've only been in pension schemes a short while , so they ca n't provide for themselves in old age , once they 've spent the redundancy money .
22 I 've only been in the industry , I 've only been with this company for two and half years , and when I joined and had a look at what the industry was about , there were thirty express overnight carriers .
23 I 've only been in Dick 's flat once and the most interesting thing I 've gleaned about him is that he never uses washing-up liquid and he has a rather interesting pile of yellowing press cuttings sitting on a shelf .
24 That 's what I mean , I 've only been in the .
25 Well I 've only been from
26 And , and how do people find out about you if they 've perhaps been through psychiatric illness ?
27 In fact I 've scarcely been to bed before one o'clock any night since I first realized he was dyslexic .
28 ‘ We 've just been through all that !
29 ‘ We 've just been through a decade where we watched surface responsibility get peeled away from a lot of people and institutions . ’
30 Yeah I 've just been through there .
  Next page