Example sentences of "'ve been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I mean , we 've been longtime admirers of yours , well you might even say fans since the days of Screentest really .
2 Aunt Elena was Mother 's room-mate at school in Switzerland and they 've been best friends ever since .
3 We 've been best friends since our first day at school , when we were five .
4 I 've been many things in my life , but I 'm not a liar . ’
5 The A423 is one of the busiest roads in the region and there 've been many accidents .
6 ‘ There 've been good things and bad things , but I 've survived .
7 You 've been good girls and worked hard for us , and I wish you luck . ’
8 Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . "
9 But , you 've been good value for money .
10 Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road .
11 I have to say , in comment to that , I do n't the know the the balance of statistics but I 've been a lone parent for , for ten years now , although I 've I 've pressed button , it was because for ten years of being able to have a stable relationship with my children , I 've got two very stable teenagers and during that , the course of that ten years I 've been disabled person as well , so yes there may be the case that there 's there 's trouble with the children of lone parent families , but I think there 's far too much emphasis on that nowadays !
12 ‘ We 've been tepid sponging and monitoring since he was admitted , but there does n't appear to be any improvement — in fact , I 'd say he 's marginally worse than he was an hour ago , so I thought I 'd better get you to take a look at him . ’
13 You 've been right patient , ’ Aunt Sarah said .
14 Make out that they 've been right bastards to .
15 We opened our Amsterdam , our new exhibition in Amsterdam in June and er , up to now audiences have flocked there many weeks they 've been thirty percent ahead of er ahead of budget .
16 I 've been thirty years in the business and this is the one place I have been where there are not petty jealousies or anything like that .
17 They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs .
18 Steven thinks that just be I only just got in he said , I 'm having my tea and he said there 's no way I 'm gon na do nothing like that at this time of night when I 've been fourteen hours at work So then he stormed off back home again so he said well you 'll have to move it cos it 's obstructing the dual carriageway someone might come round that corner fast and hit it .
19 There 've been sixteen escapes in the last two years and staff blame underfunding by the Home Office .
20 yes , and I , I do n't know whether I 've been that way , I honestly do n't know right then , so you 're all systems go , that 's the main thing
21 Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and
22 He was probably mixed up in disposing of the pictures stolen in that big robbery from the Duke of Suffolk 's place , and there 've been other things .
23 was but , what you expecting that , obviously is n't called for a lot of night life , otherwise it would be there , there 's been discotheque , they 've been all sorts of things , but they 've closed down because they have n't made enough money
24 ‘ I 've been one side of the camera for long enough , ’ he smiles .
25 ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’
26 She now bent forward towards him and said under her breath , ‘ I 've been married five years , Charles , and I 've been five times pregnant .
27 There 've been five home secretaries in four years and civil servants are unclear which direction ministers will take next .
28 He has no complaint : ‘ I 've been five years and I think it 's only fair that someone else should have a chance . ’
29 We 've done it , we 've been four years , you know
30 I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way .
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