Example sentences of "that 's been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 2 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 3 | oh , no wonder that 's been hurting at night |
| 4 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 6 | Well never can he and er the other partners with er the plant hire that 's been going for donkey 's ages and never shows a profit . |