Example sentences of "[conj] it 's [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I mean , Miss Shannon Lea , that it 's been snowing heavily all night long . |
| 2 | I ge to be honest though erm half the problem 's been I think that it 's been spoiling off so much crap , you know when I was doing those little things |
| 3 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 4 | and erm , they were absolutely chocker , they were really full and he said erm , I sa , he said he had n't had to fill them up at all in all the time that it 's been running , and no , I asked him if he had any enquiries and nobody stopped him and asked anything about it , and then he turned to the other lad who was beside him the sales assistant and he said no I 've had no enquiries at all , so that was it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're what you get in the sky when the sun shines and it 's been raining … |
| 8 | And it 's been coming from Austria this week |
| 9 | and it 's been running well since I just |
| 10 | Carriage driving for the disabled began about 20 years ago and it 's been growing in popularity ever since . |
| 11 | You know all about what 's going on ; and it 's been going on under me nose . |
| 12 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 13 | Moorlake is much too big for her and it 's been going steadily to rack and ruin for years . |
| 14 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
| 15 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 16 | erm sort of , at fir , you know , at first I thought sometimes you know oh , you know what 's the matter with you like but , she admits herself , her I Q , you know how they judge your intelligence has gone right down , she has to have tests every now and again , er she ca n't concentrate on things , or , you know some things she just ca n't do any more , so she 's at , supposed to be getting all this compensation and it 's been going on now , it was two years ago , three years ago that we met them and she 's only just had the first part of her money , she 's had five thousand pounds , that 's all she can get for the time being all the rest is , cos all solicitors and everything and doctors having to come and check things , so she knows , she knows she 'll get money eventually , but er , it 's just when , but is n't it an awful thing ? |
| 17 | I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time . |
| 18 | Well it 's , it looks like it 's been cooking . |
| 19 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |
| 20 | if it 's been standing on the floor though , only the top leaves would , I do n't know what to do about having it there though , that 's right above the radiator , it 'll dry it out that 's , that 's why I said |
| 21 | But I mean the chap was quite within his rights to shoot it cos it 's been scaring his sheep . |
| 22 | ‘ None , but it 's been bothering me . |
| 23 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 24 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 25 | But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone . |
| 26 | I want to work again — to keep up my self-respect more than anything else — but it 's been finding somewhere to live . |
| 27 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 28 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 29 | because it 's been going on a long time . |
| 30 | money for light and they 've been having to keep her pension and like giving her so much at a time because it 's been going missing with all the money ! |