Example sentences of "[noun] he 's been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's ma , he 's he 's er squitting It 's complete squit He 's been exposed . |
| 2 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 3 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 4 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 5 | No wonder he 's been dubbed ‘ the Ben Elton of magic ’ by Radio 1 's Steve Wright while a magazine writer said he ‘ makes Paul Daniels look like Gordon the Gopher ’ . |
| 6 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 7 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 8 | As it is , the only problems that clearly disturb him — as opposed to confuse him — are the nightmares and habitual sleepwalking he 's been tormented by since childhood , long before the recreational drug use kicked in . |
| 9 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 10 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 11 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
| 12 | ‘ What you need is a permanent display somewhere in London ; perhaps John 's photograph and the number of days he 's been held . |
| 13 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 14 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 15 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 16 | For three years he 's been training and testing out would be crews … |
| 17 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 18 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 19 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 20 | ‘ Got any bright ideas about how to stop Vitor from saying the kind of things he 's been saying ? ’ |
| 21 | On each occasion he 's been sent home from hospital because there were no beds available in intensive care . |
| 22 | Simtek is his firm … in the driving seat is David Brabham he 's been signed up to drive the new machine … the father figure of formula one 's newest team is Sir Jack Brabham … three times world champion … |
| 23 | This produced , even despite that , two hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred pounds of underspending in ninety-three four on just general expenses , on operational expenses , now I think if , if the Chief Constable says he has n't got enough money to do what he wants to do , he could start by spending all of the money he 's had this year , in recruiting all the officers he 's been allowed to recruit . |
| 24 | Many 's the night he 's been called out in the small hours … ’ |
| 25 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 26 | Mr Mayor I think we , we owe a debt of gratitude to councillor this evening because the sort of motions he 's been putting forward has effectively united the progressive forces . |
| 27 | Every night this week he 's been playing Hendrix to a packed Ronnie Scott 's in Birmingham . |
| 28 | ‘ That since he came back from Australia he 's been living with his mother . ’ |
| 29 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 30 | This is the first woman he 's been connected with in all that time . |