Example sentences of "'s been [verb] [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 It 's been revealed that multi-millionaire Paul Getty is donating a million pounds for a building to house the map and the famous chained library .
6 No , she 's been getting enough of that .
7 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 .
8 Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but
9 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
10 Erm because of a social evening er we had a raffle and a whiskey bowl I think the purists might not like the E in whiskey but that 's the way it 's been done that must be the southern way .
11 Well I think it 's been done that 's the problem .
12 I mean , there 's a few that 's been done that have n't been caught anyway .
13 It would be absolutely disastrous if after the excellent work that 's been done this year we were not able to maintain that .
14 Thank you , yes , I think in a course of er , er explanation that 's been given this morning , there was a reference to H G V eight diversion , now I 'm concerned that if in fact that means that er H G Vs are increasingly using the route through Culford there are two very severe right angle bends on that road and I should erm like to see the police take some action to persuade H G V to ban that route er I mean can we do a ban on the early section of it with in particular to like angle bends are ?
15 I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response .
16 The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes .
17 She 's been screaming all ear .
18 anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across
19 I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal .
20 ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’
21 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 .
22 So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable .
23 Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight .
24 The idea , one that 's been adopted many times since , was to ‘ camouflage ’ the door handle so it did n't interfere with the body lines .
25 The amount of press coverage that 's been generated this week by your conference has been enormously important to the local trade unions , it 's something that we can build on , it 's something that says to the local press to the local media trade unions have got something to say trade unions have got something to put forward and it 's that 's something that we will come back to erm afterwards , after you 've gone , we can use that , we can build on it .
26 Cos nobody 's been sent any notices for it or notified about it .
27 It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things .
28 I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers .
29 It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years .
30 He 's been doing that sort of thing for years .
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