Example sentences of "'ve [be] work [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been working here since early morning . ’ |
| 2 | I 've been working here for fourteen years but I ca n't buy postage stamps without his say-so . |
| 3 | I 've been working here for seven years now and I really enjoy my job . |
| 4 | So he said oh oh said his moan and groan so he said well I spoke to Blue he said , he 's off sick he said and he gets ninety pounds a week for being at home I 've been working here all week he said , for a hundred and forty so I 'm forty pound a week better off than him ! |
| 5 | You 've been working jolly hard , I know . |
| 6 | Profits are lower and earnings are lower than last year , but cash generation which we 've been working particularly hard on er for the past couple of years er and which we will be talking about further in a minute has come through extremely well er and we produced higher levels of cash this year than at any time in the company 's history . |
| 7 | Fortunately , I had my suspicions about it right from the start , so I 've been working closely with the police to help clear it up . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Hours of watching Ruddock on video revealed that he had a tendency to drop his left hand low , so he was wide open to my right and we 've been working hard on a left-right combination , ’ he explained . |
| 9 | ‘ It is something I 've been working hard to improve . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been working hard — ’ |
| 11 | " You 've been working hard , " she said to Bunny . |
| 12 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 13 | I 've been working hard with Gill to get into top form for the Olympics so singles play has taken a bit of a back seat . |
| 14 | I 've been working hard at getting fit again . |
| 15 | Mike says that they 've been working hard to organise the trip — and is not bothered about the risk of visiting the country . |
| 16 | Well we 've been working hard today going all round the stores |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been working extremely hard . ’ |
| 18 | I 've been working mainly on girls ' education really from about eighteen ninety to about nineteen thirty and that 's what has mainly occupied me research wise . |
| 19 | But you 've been working too hard this past while . |
| 20 | ‘ Oh , I 'm so sorry , ’ she said , ‘ I 'm afraid I 've been working too hard . ’ |
| 21 | Instead Silas said , ‘ I think you 've been working too hard . |
| 22 | ‘ You 've been working too hard , ’ he said , turning his attention to Loretta . |
| 23 | ‘ You have n't seen much of Cartagena — you 've been working too hard . |
| 24 | Maybe I 've been working too hard . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been working abroad for the last twenty years , I 've just come back to the U K and my family 's all died , and I do n't know anybody , and I 'm going to start off working here . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been working personally with these pickups for some time , putting them on Teles and Strats and all kinds of things , ’ says Paul . |
| 27 | I do n't know , basically I 've been working so hard and pushing so hard I have n't really slowed down to even think about what I 'm doing with my work . |
| 28 | ‘ And , if I have n't yet got around to getting a divorce , it 's … well , it 's just because I 've been working so hard , that 's all . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been working very hard on it , ’ was all I managed to say . |
| 30 | They 've been working very hard , in some cases long hours I think it 's right because this is a similar discussion we had by Public Protection Committee about a report and the main thing about the report is to find ways in which this could be avoided and that we could take such action as necessary and obviously some matters to avoid such a happening again but having said that other parts of West Sussex have always tended to be erm when you get excess rain erm you tend to get flooded in on the train many times some houses have got boats down the bottom of their garden and it 's not just now it 's been flooded , but it has been flooded in more recent times and that 's probably something we should be looking at . |