Example sentences of "'ve been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been good all week |
| 2 | ‘ They 've been encouraging local authorities to tighten their belts for the last 14 years , ’ he protests . |
| 3 | You 're both hot right now and you 've been hot all your lives . ’ |
| 4 | I 've been awake all night and I 've got a hell of a day ahead , meetings from morning till night . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been agog all afternoon , waiting for the next episode in your mystery story . ’ |
| 6 | we 've been married twelve years , and we 've moved three times , so we have n't moved as much as them , really . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I 've been married three times . |
| 9 | yes , I 'm living at home but I 'm also married and I 've been married three times before , and I 've got six children now . |
| 10 | out , he says to me you 'll kill yourself , you always want to do something , but to be honest it 's worse for me to sit there and watch that , it 's more tiring because by the end of the night I 'm not tired or I 've been asleep all evening I , I 'm better to go out , I know it sounds awful but I do n't like being trapped , I do n't like being in because somebody seems to think I should be in |
| 11 | Goddam it to held lady , you 've been straight all your life . |
| 12 | ‘ And you just got up in front of Henry and those pipsqueaks in your department and said , ‘ Sorry and all that , old chaps , but I 've been wrong all my life and led you into error and wickedness ’ ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been wrong all the time , Muriel . |
| 14 | Oh all of my stuff has been up in the loft it 's like you say , I mean if they 've been double wrapped and everything and you wash them |
| 15 | he may be eligible to be on a training course , for what we do n't know , but er after you 've been unemployed six months you are either required to or you have the opportunity to , or you can go on a state training course but what they train you for or to do we , we have n't actually got defined yet . |
| 16 | They say unless you 've been unemployed six months you 're not unemployed . |
| 17 | I 've been thirsty all evening ! |
| 18 | I 've been worried sick . ’ |
| 19 | I 've been worried sick for such a long time now , I 'm afraid my mind is playing me tricks . |
| 20 | ‘ Because I 've been worried sick ever since I saw your car . ’ |
| 21 | Hill 's press officer Don Payne said : ‘ We 've been busy all day . |
| 22 | We 've been busy all day . |
| 23 | ‘ They 've been ready this week past , ’ said Ednyfed Fychan , and swung to the door with alacrity . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been ready three years , Victor . ’ |
| 25 | I suppose you 've been charming that splendid lady Mrs Reynolds . ’ |
| 26 | Mind I 've been cold all night and I 'm cold now . |
| 27 | I 've been sick several times . ’ |
| 28 | They 've been open all hours … at Kingsholm this week … running on overtime getting ready for a game that could simply make or break the season … you know what they say about it never raining … it 's been pouring on Gloucester this season … defeat for the Cherry and Whites tomorrow would put them on the relegation trapdoor … |