`` I've been mucking in a mine in the San Juan, but I used to work on a ranch.

I've noticed the way you've been looking at me ever since we met ''.

I've been that far half a dozen times.

`` I've been in government and I can tell some pretty hairy stories about personnel difficulties, so I know what a problem he was ''.

`` I've been cooped up so long '', he added.

Since moving from a Chicago suburb to Southern California a few months ago, I've been introduced to a new game called Lanesmanship.

`` I've been bursting my lungs for you '', Mr. Jack complained.

`` Well, for ten years I've been murdering women.

`` I've been waiting to get these things done for months '', she said.

You'll never believe the places I've been today.

`` I've been thinking '', she said, swallowing the toast.

`` I've been looking for them, and they're gone.

`` I've been here for some time ''.

`` I've been after her for years '', Needham said, `` but I've never been able to get anywhere until the last few days ''.

`` I've been careful about fingerprints.

For A good many seasons I've been looking at the naughty stuff on television, so the other night I thought I ought to see how immorality is doing on the other side of the fence in movies.

`` I've been here so many times I couldn't count them ''.

`` You haven't been listening to what I've been telling you.

`` What a fool I've been '', she said quietly.

I'd have phoned sooner but I've been busy ''.

`` I've been fixing up the guest room for Cathy ''.

Here I've been going along having our little workshops with me doing all the talking and you doing all the listening.

Even though it substitutes self-pity for the found throughout Infidels, you can't ignore it as a Dylan spyglass: ' Someone else is speakin ' with my mouth, but I'm listening only to my heart / I've made shoes for everyone, even you, while I still go barefoot.

" What I wanted this time out was a combination of the music I've been listening to recently ," Raitt said in 1982, " Billy Burnette, the Blasters, Rockpile, and the rock-a-billy New Wave scene.

I was listening to the same records with the same sounds, so I said ' I've had enough.

After listening to an outtake of Gaye's 1982 album track, " Turn On Some Music " ( titled " I've Got My Music " in its initial version ), Sermon decided to mix the vocals ( done in a cappella ) and add it into his own song.

In most cases, they sounded much better than the mp3s I've been listening to for years -- clearer, warmer, deeper.

" I've been working on a detective story that starts at the St Giles in the Fields church in London for the last two years ," she told NME adding that she " loved detective stories " having been a fan of Sherlock Holmes and US crime author Mickey Spillane as a girl.

I've always hated my last name.

I've spent the last couple weeks writing a window

Puglisi's last words as his killers approached were: " I've been expecting you.

It damaged my hearing permanently, and today I've still got a hearing problem because of the sheer volume throughout the last year of Cream.

The dodo handcuffs himself to Porky, claiming " I've got the last Dodo!

Gaiman called the last screenplay that Warner Bros. would send him " not only the worst Sandman script I've ever seen, but quite easily the worst script I've ever read.

And I know, just over the years from people who've e-mailed me at my web site and people who I've talked to since I started going to Star Trek conventions again in the last five years, that there are so many more people who really enjoyed everything about the show, including my performance, including the character.

Bakshi said of the work, " It's the most proud I've been of a picture since Coonskin — the last real thing I did with total integrity.

I've been in the hospital many times in the last three years.

Martin Luther King, Jr. said at the beginning of his last speech, " I've been to the mountain top ," that " Ralph David Abernathy is the best friend that I have in the world.

" I've pushed my last baby buggy ," an offended woman informed Goldman.

Osbourne has criticized the album and the decision to record it in Toronto, telling After Hours in a 1981 interview " The last album I did with Sabbath was Never Say Die and it was the worst piece of work that I've ever had anything to do with.

During an interview with on February 16, 2011, Rzeznik confirmed that he is writing new material for a new album: " I've actually been experimenting, in this last week, while we've been out on this tour, just writing lyrics and then figuring out the melodic structures ," says Rzeznik.

I've played too well, too long to let a shorter period of bad golf be my last.

I've been told by the club's official that this is going to be my last season here.

In a coincidental matter, the show technically ran for 13 years ( the last episode, " Just Another Manic Kahn-Day ", aired in 2010 ); Bobby was 13 when the series ended ; there was a statement in the episode To Sirloin with Love from Hank saying " I've been waiting 13 years for common interest "-an inadvertent fourth wall joke.

In May 2010 Weller was presented with the Ivor Novello Lifetime Achievement award, saying " I've enjoyed the last 33 years I've been writing songs and hopefully, with God's good grace, I'll do some more.

" I love my golf but because of my arthritis, I've not played much in the last two years, if any.

On 20 August, Orage wrote his last letter to Gurdjieff: " Dear Mr. Gurdjieff, I've found very little to revise ..."