Example sentences of "'s [be] [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David 's been collecting cones for more than thirty years and since then he 's accumulated some real beauties . |
| 2 | Elizabeth was crying because Angharad 's been destroying things in the house . ’ |
| 3 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |
| 4 | Bryan Burnett 's been getting chatty with that showbiz legend Cilla Black . |
| 5 | He 's been taking soundings about the possibility of shifting Mirror Group Newspapers , lock , stock and Joe Haines 's basket , south of the Thames to Great Dover Street while Maxwell House , his Holborn HQ , is flattened and rebuilt . |
| 6 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 7 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
| 8 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ It turns out he 's been syphoning money off the firm . |
| 10 | Speaking as an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since nineteen sixty two , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 11 | Speaking as a , an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since 1962 , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 12 | Leofwine 's been made Bishop of Lichfield . |
| 13 | He 's been sent north to Northumbria to join his uncle Siward . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Leon 's been touring England for the past ten days , Delia . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ She 's been telling tales behind my back ! |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |
| 19 | Steve 's been playing golf for 18 months now . |
| 20 | Every night this week he 's been playing Hendrix to a packed Ronnie Scott 's in Birmingham . |
| 21 | Bridget O'Brien 's been fighting attempts by Barclay 's Bank to repossess her home for five years and her legal victory was welcomed by others with similar problems . |
| 22 | Up until nineteen twenty seven he 's been saying work with the Kuomintang , work with the bourgeois nationalists , work with the parties to your right . |
| 23 | United are unchanged … player coach Greg Downs has served his suspension but has named himself as sub … a man to watch is young Gareth Davies he 's been having trials with Liverpool and may have a future at Anfield … |
| 24 | Ey she looked with the red scarf who 's been having problems with it ! |
| 25 | ‘ She 's been having trouble with her periods , if you must know , ’ she says , imputing a prurient inquisitiveness to Vic , although she is well aware that such gynaecological disclosures are the last thing he wants , especially at this hour of the morning . |
| 26 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 27 | There 's been mounting criticism of Chancellor Kohl 's nomination of Stephan Heitmann , a conservative from East Germany , because of his views on the Holocaust , foreigners and the role of women in society . |
| 28 | She 's been studying photography at Aylesbury College since then — forced to put her career as a nurse on hold . |
| 29 | This time he 's been promised action in the European Parliament . |
| 30 | De Niro 's been raising cash for his next serious project . |