Example sentences of "[pron] 's been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
2 | No , she 's been getting enough of that . |
3 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
4 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
5 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
6 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
7 | ‘ She 's been crying all the time . |
8 | She 's been crying all night really . |
9 | That 's where she 's been spending most of her time these last few months . ’ |
10 | every time I look , turn round , she 's been visiting some aids patient |
11 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
12 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
13 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
14 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
15 | She 's been saying that ? |
16 | I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper . |
17 | she 's been contributing that 's one reason one , she 's , discovered other things , this morning somebody turned up apparently they took a loan out |
18 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
19 | Well then if you were n't sure of your formula , if you tried the formula , who 's been doing that ? |
20 | Who 's been tooling all the parts ? |
21 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
22 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
23 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
24 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |
25 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 ) . |
28 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
29 | It 's been selling all day . |
30 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |