Example sentences of "he 's [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This time he 's been wearing protective clothing .
2 Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now .
3 He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them .
4 He 's been made redundant and is desperate for work . ’
5 Cos the last I see he 's been made redundant now has n't he ?
6 Because like she said , here he 's been made redundant once , and he stands another chance of just starting
7 He 's been granted conditional bail until October the twenty-second .
8 It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things .
9 He 's been training hard and looks sharp .
10 He 's been declared bankrupt . ’
11 Now , with accountants trying to find whether pension money was used to help Oxford out of their financial difficulties , he 's coming to terms with the possibility he 's been supporting United in more ways than one …
12 He 's been enjoying terrific sport with bream to 3.5lb and tench to 3lb on the Plex Lane stretch .
13 He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty .
14 He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated .
15 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
16 So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it
17 ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’
18 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 .
19 John Gorman says it 's good value for an international striker and he 's been given great support by the board to go and out and strengthen the side … he thinks Jan will help them in the premier league … ,
20 We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day
21 He 's been doing that sort of thing for years .
22 Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that
23 He 's been doing that album .
24 and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that .
25 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 . ’
26 We remain convinced that full merger is the best way forward and the amendment will e enable the project to make progress If the Lib Dems have changed their mind Chairman and do support the forthcoming Labour amendment erm th the worst aspect for me is that I 've lost a bet because Bob bet me a year ago that the Lib Dems would not last the distance and he 's been proved right .
27 He 's been showing some Americans round Oxford this morning — and he 's got a lecture this afternoon , so …
28 He 's been arrested 32 times for shoplifting , but each time magistrates ruled the offences were n't serious enough for him to be detained , where he might have got the treatment he needs .
29 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 .
30 he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid
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