Example sentences of "'s been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 2 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 3 | Anyway Lisa 's been flirting badly with Ricky for ages ! |
| 4 | ‘ Someone 's been splashing out at Woolworths , ’ said O'Hara , tapping with his hook at the pearls . |
| 5 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 6 | ‘ The thing is , Management will listen to him and he 'll get what he wants , not like poor old Ron who 's been waffling away for years and not getting anywhere . |
| 7 | It 's just that Stephen 's been rooting about in boxes . |
| 8 | It 's Mackeson Gold Cup Day , it 's been raining heavily at Cheltenham , there 's a non-runner in the big race details coming up . |
| 9 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 10 | It 's been going on for months |
| 11 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 12 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 13 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |
| 14 | And after all the fuss that 's been going on in work I do n't really like to ask to go early . |
| 15 | Lamb said : ‘ We are aware of what 's been going on in India and obviously things are not as rosey as we would have liked , but we all hope the conflict will die down . |
| 16 | So that 's what 's been going on in terms of output , in terms of orders already received , orders are up in all mainland regions of the U K. It 's the first time that we 've seen that since er the beginning of the recession and that 's the sense in which we think one can say erm reasonably sort of er straightforwardly that the recovery has indeed spread around the mainland economy . |
| 17 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |
| 18 | After all , he 's been working here for centuries , and I bet no one 's ever heard him say ‘ Cut , that 's a wrap ’ , before . ’ |
| 19 | The Bishop of Tewkesbury , who 's been standing in for Bishop Peter , spoke of his sadness over the resignation . |
| 20 | ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table . |
| 21 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |
| 22 | Women like the fact that he looks like he 's been rolling around in hay . |
| 23 | The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 . |