Example sentences of "it 's [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 2 | It 's been holding us back since yesterday . ’ |
| 3 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 4 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
| 5 | It 's his first film for five years and he told me it 's been creating quite a stir , because of its subject matter . |
| 6 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , yes , it 's been getting worse lately , ’ says Bob Busby . |
| 8 | It 's been getting too frightening . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's been getting worse . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Over the last ten years it 's been getting much worse . |
| 11 | Well it 's , it 's been looking as though you 're you 're guilty |
| 12 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 13 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 14 | Here it 's been trying to snow all day . |
| 15 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 16 | They 'd pretty well packed their bags anyway , she said , it 's been raining there every day . ’ |
| 17 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 18 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're what you get in the sky when the sun shines and it 's been raining … |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It smells different when it 's been raining and our clothes are wet . |
| 22 | Well my pal and myself we took these two girls and we sat in the middle of the Temperance Hall and he said come on let's sit over on the balcony he says and put up my clothes by the radiator he says it 's been raining he says and it will dry them , so we moved , and exactly from were we moved was where the women got killed , just candelabra dropped on her and er when it happened the fella on the stage the comedian was singing , a hundred years from now you wo n't be here , and I wo n't be here and from the corner of my eye I could see something gradually dropping like one of these candelabras and I thought hello that 's part of the act you know , it was just gradually coming down and all of a sudden , whooosh and the roof came straight in oh and I do n't know sure I 'd I , everything went dark of course I mean it was all in blacked-out all the chairs were loose , so as the folks wended their way towards the exit doors they took the chairs with them , so they politely threw them back in the crowd that stood in the hall so you were dodging chairs as well as trying to get out , where we were , where we were seated the firemen were hacking at the windows thinking that it was a fire because all the dust had gone up in the air and the reflection of the light from the market I suppose and that would give the appearance of smoke , and he was , I said to this fireman I said there 's no fire , he says , he says there is I said there 's no fire in here , anyway we eventually got out but I took these girls back home to and I really , it was , properly unnerved us both and as we came on that old tram we were , we thought you know everything seemed to sort of upset us and when I got far more upset on the Sunday morning when I went to have a look at it , the whole roof had come right in , but there were fifty people got injured you know and about , oh there was one lady killed . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 24 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 26 | ‘ The thing is , it 's been building up inside me for weeks . |
| 27 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been buzzing along quite well lately but the murder — the real murder , that is — has thrown me rather badly . |
| 29 | In the month and a half it 's been delivering its high-end SparcCenter 2000s Sun has shipped 130 systems to paying customers : the firm has reportedly come up with a new 50MHz MPU module for its high-end SparcCenter 2000 that adds 2Mb external caches and improves database throughput from 20% to 40% . |
| 30 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |