Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 's been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal
4 It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years .
5 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 .
6 He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty .
7 And he 's been saying some very wild things to George .
8 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
9 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 . ’
10 But it 's been doing that you see , it 's coming at it 's come and gone .
11 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 ? ’
12 Not after she 's been waiting 200 years to get her hands on the last of the Gittels .
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