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

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1 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 . ’
2 ‘ After all , I 've only been with them a few years . ’
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 It 's pretty boring here and I 've only been at Auntie Jane 's just over a day .
6 ‘ We 've only been to two movies in two-and-a-half years , ’ he says .
7 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 .
8 I 've only been to Devon and Cornwall , you ca n't really call
9 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 .
10 Well we 've only been to the dentist here .
11 ‘ I 've only been on the Delos once before .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 So you 've only been in Harlow since nineteen sixty three ?
15 ‘ I 've only been in once .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 That 's what I mean , I 've only been in the .
20 Well I 've only been from
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