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 | ‘ There 've been good things and bad things , but I 've survived . |
| 3 | You 've been good girls and worked hard for us , and I wish you luck . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . " |
| 5 | But , you 've been good value for money . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | You 've been right patient , ’ Aunt Sarah said . |
| 10 | Make out that they 've been right bastards to . |
| 11 | They 've been bloody computer games in work , the chuffs . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been close friends for donkey 's years and I know you better than to think you 'd try to queer my pitch . ’ |
| 14 | I came back and got a deal that summer and started the album immediately but there 've been various setbacks along the way . |
| 15 | The salad bowls are great to look at , and great to use — they are such a good size compared with the silly little one we 've been crushing lettuce and tomato into for far too long . |
| 16 | I 've been chief executive and/or chairman for twenty-five years and the tendency is to think you 're indispensable and you have to stay on until you 're seventy-five , as some people do . |
| 17 | There 've been low points , too — not least the fire in January last year which destroyed an entire hangar and its contents at a cost to the Air Force of 40 million . |
| 18 | He sits by the door and I read in my chair , and we 're like two people who 've been married years . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been practising golf for two weeks in Florida and now I ca n't hit the ball properly . |
| 20 | And the main news again , there 've been renewed calls tonight for the police to be armed after a community policeman was murdered . |
| 21 | " I 've been back hours . " |
| 22 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 23 | in that competition , they 've been beaten cup . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've not been that well myself , ’ she said , ‘ I 've been worried sick about ye . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been worried sick about you . |
| 26 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 27 | the Boy Scouts can on there for a number of years , back to the fifties , there 've been excellent tenants of that piece of land . |
| 28 | I 've been busy gardening . |
| 29 | But just in case they do n't , we 've been busy cooking up campaigns that even Tory Central Office and Labour HQ might think twice about . |
| 30 | The team is delighted and they 've been busy celebrating . |