Example sentences of "'ve been [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Black people , although they 've been here such a long time , have n't assimilated into the business community , or education , as they have in America . |
| 2 | You 've been here all that time ? |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been here all day — here in Oxford ! ’ |
| 4 | No I 'm only phoning you because you phoned I 'm only phoning because you ph yeah yeah no no we 've been here all the time and the phone did n't ring once well |
| 5 | Shelley , you 've been here all day . |
| 6 | I 've been here all the time . |
| 7 | I 've been here all morning . |
| 8 | One mistake I 've made since I 've been here that is . |
| 9 | Now you 've been here several months , have your feelings about Chrysler changed ? |
| 10 | And I opened the door and let him in and he was telling me I 've been here half an hour trying to get in . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been here some time now and it 's never happened before . ’ |
| 12 | But I 've been up all night . |
| 13 | I 've been up all night , thinking . |
| 14 | I 've been up all night working on these . ’ |
| 15 | Certainly when we get settled in after Christmas that should be and I 'll shall say about six rolls but I 'll shall say six rolls and just the every time I get one roll of wallpaper up and you you 'll think oh I 'll do the rest tomorrow just a bit more , then you get one more looks alright there , the other wall and er , I 'm sat , I 've been up all night doing this shall do one more then I 'll go a bed , I get from the wife bloody hell mother what time did you go to bed , about an hour ago , could n't leave it wallpaper . |
| 16 | I 've been up all night . |
| 17 | There she blows , it 's your mama hello , yeah we 've been up half er , since half past , about eight o'clock yeah , we 'll be round at nine o'clock , okay , bye . |
| 18 | I 've been away all this week because my wife took a telephone message from Nora yesterday and it is it is in our parish . |
| 19 | well we 've erm we 've erm we 've been rather tempted by the west coast er I personally want to see the Grand Canyon and erm I 'd like to see San Francisco so the package which is being offered to the Boots Association with whom we 've been away several times and we lo we like it as , as a , as a background because you 've got a rough idea , you know , the people you 're going with |
| 20 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Yes , it 's a pot I 've been down many times — not the easiest ; apart from a fifty-foot pitch we 'll have to haul him up , there 's a long sump we 'll have to bring the injured man back through which could be tricky if he 's unconscious or uncooperative . |
| 22 | If I was on the streets of Ireland now , and I 've been there many occasions and someone said to me , look at that Welsh get there , I would just have to take it . |
| 23 | And er I 've been there all my life and that 's and that 'll be eighty seven years old come May and er I 've just worked on the farm all my days and er then of course when my people died I just er stayed myself , and then lived with other people here and there , just to help them . |
| 24 | You 've been there all day and ca n't remember ! |
| 25 | ‘ I managed to crawl to the outside lavatory and I 've been there most of the time . ’ |
| 26 | Erm there 's been a reduction er , in the er , staff er because er er people have moved on and er , I take Sue 's point about er if it were n't for the fact that erm they 'd got fully e e experienced staff who 've been there some time , they have n't , not used to this churning over o of , and therefore , that has paid off in er in er in erm so far as being able to deal with the problems that have arisen and er , you 'll see further on er , addition profiles of the work that 's been done with er in this area over the town . |
| 27 | ‘ There 've been so many times when I 've lain awake at night longing for you to kiss me , make love to me . |
| 28 | I know that the new members of Council have been welcomed into our midst and it must be along time since there 've been so many changes . |
| 29 | because they 've been so much more technology , you know , since it 's started |
| 30 | erm , I , well I ca n't commit myself to going down to that to , I mean if it 's , if I can I 'll give you a ring because with Cherry being off as well it 's , I mean it 's gon na be unfair if I start , cos I 've been so much |