Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's been tell " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been telling her fibs again . ’ |
| 2 | If it makes you feel any better , you may like to know that she 's been telling me that our separation was all my fault — because I was too proud to climb down , or admit I was in the wrong . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's been telling tales behind my back ! |
| 4 | Erm , I was n't aware that Linda , erm , was a good cook , she 's been tell me she 's a good cook , I was n't aware of that , because in one her drawers there 's normally half a tea cake , a scone or whatever you like . |
| 5 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 6 | But now she 's been told she ca n't . |
| 7 | It 's been told to improve the works by the National Rivers Authority which monitors pollution . |
| 8 | He 's been telling the girls that their costumes for the video will be added by using computer graphics . |
| 9 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 10 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 11 | He 's been telling businessmen and women that Britain 's prosperity depends on their export success . |
| 12 | he erm , he 's given Stuart our phone number and Stuart 's been shouting this , this is Geoff 's phone number I mean he 's , he 's been telling every body our phone number , I says yeah you just let somebody ring us up and I 'll bloody well be round their house like a shot if they phone , they |
| 13 | He 's been telling FOX F M's Robin Powell that most of the job losses have already occurred . |
| 14 | But he 's been telling members of the Environmental Protection Committee this afternoon that he has every confidence in the steps that Thames Water has taken to prevent an recurrence of the events of eighteen months ago . |
| 15 | After all , he 's been told what 's going on , she has n't — and is almost driven to suicide by his mysterious silence , ’ she explains . |
| 16 | He 's been doin' what he 's been told to do , and feedin' me back all the inside information I need . |
| 17 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 18 | He 's willing to risk it , and he 's been told the risk . ’ |
| 19 | Otherwise he 's been told that he wo n't even be able to sell his liver for cat food . |
| 20 | Well I think the chairman of the committee s is aware , because he 's been , he 's been told . |
| 21 | Other ones here , an anonymous call from Birmingham , I have been beaten up weekly by my ex-husband because he 's been told to pay more . |
| 22 | He 's been told it could be next week , but he wo n't believe it until he wakes up after his operation , in one of those six intensive care beds.Even then , he 'll still be waiting . |
| 23 | After almost fifty years with Nuffield Press in Oxford , the last five under the ownership of Robert Maxwell , he 's been told he wo n't see anything of his pension fund totalling around thirty-eight thousand pounds … |
| 24 | He 's been told he and twenty nine other senior council officers will have to pay back golden handshake payments made to streamline the council 's management . |
| 25 | He 's been told an operation will help him but says it 's only on condition he gives up smoking for six months . |
| 26 | He 's been told he can do it legally only if he takes his uniform off first . |
| 27 | Now he 's been told to stop doing a good turn for pensioners and others who otherwise have to wait minutes for a gap in the traffic . |
| 28 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |
| 29 | Anthony Gilberthorpe was originally awarded damages of more than sixty thousand pounds , but now that 's been overturned and he 's been told he must pay all the costs . |
| 30 | Now he 's been told it 's not a fungus , it 's eczema . |