Example sentences of "'ve [adv] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1861 : ‘ I 've long been meditating a novel on insanity , or rather on how one becomes insane . ’ |
| 2 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 3 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've all been thinking , ’ he said . |
| 7 | They 've all been listening to the trainer . |
| 8 | We were all asked to sit down — which was absolutely unheard of — and then he said , ‘ Well , I expect you 've all been wondering how you got here … . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You 've all been playing games with me . ’ |
| 10 | Hopefully we can go all the way to Wembley , but we 've all been saying in the dressing room that there are some big league games coming up and we have to concentrate on them . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We 've all been longing to see him . |
| 12 | At last — the book we 've all been waiting for : The A-Z of Good Sex by SHE 's Dr Delvin . |
| 13 | We 've all been waiting for you for hours . ’ |
| 14 | Here are the selections we 've all been waiting for . |
| 15 | and now the moment you 've all been waiting for … if of course you entered our Christmas cracker competition … the answers and the winners |
| 16 | They 've all been waiting for more than 2 years for plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville hospital near Aylesbury . |
| 17 | BERKSHIRE BBC ( , and ) proudly announce the release of the video you 've all been waiting for — ‘ THE WILDE SHOW ’ . |
| 18 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 19 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 20 | Particularly Old Speckled Hen could survive ; they 've only been brewing it there in its present form for 2 years and it would be easy for us to transfer that production to their specifications using Morland 's yeast . |
| 21 | But you 've only been skiing for a short while . |
| 22 | Sorry I ca n't really sort of say I must admit I could n't really see why they should be like that really cos I mean it is a bit puzzling cos if they 've only just done anything , they 've only been tampering with this finger so |
| 23 | There 's been no problem matching clients to carers because I 've had a biggish pool to choose from — there 's been about 30 people on the register at any one time — and I 've only been using a maximum of ten at a time . ’ |
| 24 | And that did n't surprise Graham one bit as he bluntly admitted : ‘ I 've got tired players on my hands , and we 've only been playing five weeks . |
| 25 | I 've only been standin' 'ere twenty minutes , 'aven' I ? |
| 26 | ‘ But you 've only been talking to them for a little while ! ’ said Angalo . |
| 27 | Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days . |
| 28 | Computers are used in all walks of life , although so far in our series of programmes we 've largely been looking at scientific applications . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose that I 've just been recognising that the sort of feeling your mother had for your father is … she paused as she searched for as unemotive a word as possible . |
| 30 | ‘ No , you 've just been lookin' , ’ she said . |