Example sentences of "that 's been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 2 | Well maybe , maybe it 's because the person that 's been dealing with is not sufficiently au fait with Peterborough |
| 3 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that let Windows applications run on Unix desktops . |
| 4 | It caps a deal that 's been brewing for some time for the pair to co-develop products this year that enable Windows applications to run under Unix on desktop systems . |
| 5 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 6 | so I mean if , if they caught one , they actually took a photo , managed to take a photo out of all those hundreds of people , look how many more were , were there , and it just seems like basically their not sure who fired first , obviously the Irish say it was the British them and the British say they were fired upon first and erm , on , on the strength of it , who , who would you rather believe I mean , somebody that 's been living in Ireland for twenty odd yea twenty years now with all that happening around him being able to be got at by the I R A or a British body who may , may be up on a murder trial , you know , the , at the end of the day its six of one and half a dozen of the other , they 've both got stuffed by a bleeding troop |
| 7 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 8 | Unix System Labs is apparently looking at the Tiny 386BSD boot disk ( the one that 's been circulating in the academia , which derives from Bill Jolitz 's work and is not from Berkeley System Design Inc ) checking that it does n't infringe their property rights . |
| 9 | oh , no wonder that 's been hurting at night |
| 10 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 11 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've just been asked to take over a leading role in a production that 's been playing in Stratford which they 're taking to the Barbican . |
| 13 | Because I 've been keeping a record of everything that 's been happening for you , you know , so you wo n't have missed anything . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ So he 's the one behind everything that 's been happening to you recently . ’ |
| 15 | Well never can he and er the other partners with er the plant hire that 's been going for donkey 's ages and never shows a profit . |