Example sentences of "'ve been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 3 | I suppose you 've been watching that as well . |
| 4 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 5 | Ca n't believe you 've been watching all this television . |
| 6 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 7 | " I expect you 've been watching those " Bleakland " programmes , have n't you , Grandmother ? " |
| 8 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 10 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 11 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 12 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 13 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 14 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 15 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 18 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 19 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , I 've been thinking that myself . ’ |
| 21 | How can I know what you 've been thinking all this time ? |
| 22 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 23 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 24 | You 've been wasting more . |
| 25 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 26 | Well I 've been using that what you buy from |
| 27 | The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been using this , but conserving the batteries as much as possible as they 're very low . |
| 29 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 30 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |