Example sentences of "but he 's been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Funnily enough , he 's very good at his job , very efficient , but he 's been spoiled by women , I think . ’ |
| 2 | Victory may have been his Down Under if this Honda had n't cooked its clutch , but he 's been expecting his Michelins to have the upper hand in hot weather . |
| 3 | But he 's been saving up . |
| 4 | Real Men with John Ritter its , its really wacky , like he 's this fucking secret agent stuff , I never smoke unless its after six and he just , he 's this John Ritter and his got this really mild of character but he 's been mistaken for an , an agent and he 's , he 's , he 's going |
| 5 | But he 's been telling members of the Environmental Protection Committee this afternoon that he has every confidence in the steps that Thames Water has taken to prevent an recurrence of the events of eighteen months ago . |
| 6 | ‘ Oh , but he 's been transferred , ’ said the nurse . |
| 7 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 8 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I would if I could — but he 's been flying back and forth to Australia like a damned Yo-Yo ! |
| 10 | There is a wealth of revealing evidence on the attitudes that affect reading : ‘ His daddy always takes him to bed , and he says ‘ Can I have a story ? ’ said an engineer 's wife , ‘ but he 's been told now that he 's getting a bit too old for stories ’ ’ [ ‘ He ’ is four ] ( Newson and Newson , 1968 , p.274 ) ; ‘ Then I read her a story , ’ said an actor 's wife , ‘ and Rupert listens , and then I show Rupert his little book ’ ’ [ Rupert being sixteen months old ] ( ibid . |
| 11 | But he 's been told he should have shaved if he 'd wanted the job . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | But he 's been doing it manually have n't you Rog ? |
| 14 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 15 | But he 's been doing very well at it despite having to learn terrifying new skills , like walking a tightrope . |
| 16 | Yeah , but he 's been doing really good ! |
| 17 | But he 's been keeping the opticians in business — especially the ones that stock really old-fashioned frames — ever since we were at school together . |