Example sentences of "'s be [v-ing] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | You know she 's been hiding her light under a bushel , a bush . |
2 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
3 | She 's been collecting them for twenty five years , and now keeps more than five hundred at her home in Woodchester . |
4 | Ever since her children started school she 's been filling her time making sculptures from scrap . |
5 | He 's been nagging me to take her back for weeks . |
6 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
7 | Well after the break , you can buy them , this is one of them , for as little as twenty five pounds , Elton John 's been wearing something altogether more expensive at the High Court this week but does it look much better ? |
8 | ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’ |
9 | She 's been reading them up for days . ’ |
10 | ‘ Michael 's been reading his book of Things a Director 's Supposed to Say again , ’ a voice murmured somewhere above her ear , and Shannon turned with a grin to the tall blonde woman at her side . |
11 | he 's been reading his horses . |
12 | He 's been watching his old man . |
13 | President Gorbachev 's been facing his worst Mayday parade and the first one not to be completely controlled by the communist party . |
14 | ‘ Look , Superintendent , he 's the shit who 's been screwing my wife . |
15 | He 's been calling me up all hours of the day and night complaining about you guys especially Steve . |
16 | He 's been writing his latest book there . |
17 | She 's been seeing her therapist again , thought Henry , as he stumbled towards the Passat . |
18 | Well , it 's funny cos like , she 'd , me Mum an that 's been taking her shopping down and she 's been buying it herself and like me Auntie Jean , she goes down three or four times a day sometimes and then she goes down again and it 's all missing ! |
19 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
20 | 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% . |
21 | cos he 's been devoting his life to his wife more |
22 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
23 | She 's been expecting them — you have n't delivered . ’ |
24 | Victory may have been his Down Under if this Honda had n't cooked its clutch , but he 's been expecting his Michelins to have the upper hand in hot weather . |
25 | It turns out that half the words she 's been teaching me are all wrong . |
26 | My dad 's been teaching him ? |
27 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |
28 | ‘ Stella 's been ringing somebody , ’ Vernon said . |
29 | ‘ It 's been puzzling me . |
30 | oh he sucked his biscuit before , that 's right , I put it in the bin did n't I ? and I said to you do n't eat it because Richard 's been sucking it , lift your foot up please let's have your shoe back on again |