Example sentences of "'ve be [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've been writing to each other for eight years but had never met until this year . |
| 2 | " I 've been proving to Graham I really did have some wine and it smashed . " |
| 3 | We have found the leaks , and we have connected all , we have reconnected all of the er supplies , including a supply to the cathedral field , which has never been billed in the past er because of erm damage to their meter , it 's only used twenty seven gallons but twenty seven litres , but whilst I 've been here , it 's a water meadow from the result of the water that we 've been supplying to that particular field . |
| 4 | Today I 've been thinking to myself , I 've only got the sleeves to put in that dress — when am I going to have the time to do it' ? |
| 5 | So , you know what these girls are , they sort of I personally , you know , as it were a trained scientist , a certified chemist who you tend to , to take a , a slightly er diagnostic view of things , but that 's not quite right , but you take a slightly objective view of things and I , I , I , I 've been thinking to myself ah it is rotten unfair on girls because sometimes sort of between about fifteen and twenty five , but now I suppose because they 're all growing up so much earlier it 's between ten and twenty , they have a pretty monumental change , they , and , and it 's not a bundle of laughs but they can talk to their friends , they can see their friends and talk to their mothers , they can get a vague way it 's gon na affect them and they can you know , sort of , let's say twenty , twenty five settle into a routine which has variations every , during the four weeks and they vary between individuals , I mean it 's well known |
| 6 | Directly you go ashore have a bath , send everything you 've been wearing to the laundry , and wash your hair . |
| 7 | ‘ So you 've been chatting to the Earl of Ferngrove , Jill ! ’ |
| 8 | I 've been trying to be a footballer , and that is n't me . |
| 9 | As you 're aware , we 've been trying to or organize this sort of open forum , engineering in the house in September |
| 10 | I 've got a trainee manager at the moment and I 've been trying to he 's just making such a balls up it 's easier not to . |
| 11 | I 've been trying to . |
| 12 | We 've been trying to . |
| 13 | For twelve months , I 've been trying to er , when I realised that that was put on my cleaning bill , it seemed to be so unfair that the little ol and the lady who , up till now has has cleaned for me , because the home help service , no longer just does cleaning . |
| 14 | So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true . |
| 15 | This County Council failed to do it from the time , time it was formed until eighty-five ; it failed even to address the problem , never mind do it , and we 've been trying to , to sort of do some catching up . |
| 16 | That would have made an impression at a literary party , but the old trout just replied , ‘ Silly boy , I do n't think you 've been listening to a word I said ! ’ |
| 17 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I think a lot of what happens when you play solos has to do with what you 've been listening to lately . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I 've been listening to that a lot . |
| 22 | But I do n't know what wind you 've been listening to . |
| 23 | I 've been listening to you ringing the bell . " |
| 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 | You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’ |
| 26 | ‘ You 've been listening to the hoodoo doctors , ’ he says . |
| 27 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |
| 28 | But do ask when you get back to the branch , because it samples claims that Abbey has , have had , erm , it reiterates the statistics that you 've just heard , the likelihood of somebody suffering with cancer , heart attacks , strokes etcetera , it er , gives you the ages er , if you choose , write in statistics , the one you 've been listening to . |
| 29 | Thank you Chairman erm I would like I know that you 've been listening to the first er part of our session this afternoon , erm and I 'd like to ask you to discuss with us one of the questions that we asked the group the Pension Fund erm and that 's to discuss the balance of power that exists between the employer and the various groups and classes of pensioner . |
| 30 | I 've been listening to it for a while . |