Example sentences of "and [pron] 's be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 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
2 Well , it 's funny cos like , she 'd , me Mum an that 's been taking her shopping down and she 's been buying it herself and like me Auntie Jean , she goes down three or four times a day sometimes and then she goes down again and it 's all missing !
3 And she 's been sitting with me down in my studio while I work .
4 And she 's been working there eight years .
5 and she 's been letting me off for the keep .
6 She 's looking cold , and she 's been cutting her hair again .
7 Doctor 's with your Pappy now , Miss Cora-Beth , and he 's ill with grieving and Jake went off on horseback not half an hour ago to fetch you and Mr Harry back from your party and we 's been waitin' and waitin' for you … ’
8 It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’
9 And he 's been hanging around there ever since .
10 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 .
11 He started collecting as a child and he 's been buying ever since .
12 Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him .
13 He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty .
14 He 's twenty-five now , Tucker told me , and he 's been living with his mother in Nassau . ’
15 And he 's been wrestling with this alsatian
16 The reason that his brush has stroked not a lot on these pristine pages of late is twofold : firstly , he 's been very busy providing illustrations for the soon-to-be-seen N-Force magazine ( which Europress are launching for Nintendo fans = both of them ! ) , and he 's been sunning himself on the golden shores of beautiful Bali for the past three weeks !
17 Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film .
18 Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film .
19 And he 's been working erm in in the shop .
20 ‘ I 'll just bet she was some broad he used to be in love with or something , and he 's been giving her the brush-off while she 's trying to fan the embers , get back to the way it used to be . ’
21 He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat .
22 Unfortunately , Mr Bones takes his work home with him , and he 's been making members of the LUSH sick by bringing the skulls of baby birds to dinner .
23 I mean he 's a rank Labour , he 's got everything up there cos he was telling Mike , I mean he 's got his neck in a collar and he 's been waiting
24 And he 's been lying like hell , ’ said one source .
25 ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said .
26 And he 's been saying some very wild things to George .
27 And he 's been imprisoning IRA members , I understand . ’
28 The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time .
29 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 .
30 ‘ They 're what you get in the sky when the sun shines and it 's been raining
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