Example sentences of "'s be [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 4 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 5 | No , she 's been getting enough of that . |
| 6 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 7 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 8 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 9 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 10 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 11 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 13 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 14 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 15 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 16 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 17 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 18 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 19 | Well then if you were n't sure of your formula , if you tried the formula , who 's been doing that ? |
| 20 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |
| 21 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 22 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
| 23 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 24 | Tod 's been doing this quite a bit lately — grunting : Shtib . |
| 25 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 26 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 27 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 29 | I also find that he 's been quoting some twelve hour figures and the only ones I have , you may have them er Mr chairman , are from the H and T C report in July of last year where they forecasted four thousand nine hundred on the A six five eight and achieve eight thousa for nineteen ninety six and achieved eight thousand one hundred now . |
| 30 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |