Example sentences of "'s [be] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 3 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 4 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 5 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 6 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 7 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 8 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 9 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 10 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |
| 11 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |