Example sentences of "'s been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun pl] " 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 ‘ 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 .
4 It 's just that Stephen 's been rooting about in boxes .
5 Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages
6 It 's been going on for months
7 I gather it 's been going on for years . ’
8 When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 . ’
12 ‘ There 's a chap — he 's been coming round for years going on and on at me about buying the table .
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