Example sentences of "'s [been] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 2 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 3 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 4 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 7 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 8 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 9 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 10 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 11 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 12 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 13 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 14 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 15 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 16 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 17 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 18 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 19 | Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen . |
| 20 | He 's been showing some Americans round Oxford this morning — and he 's got a lecture this afternoon , so … |
| 21 | He 's mending car , he 's been working all day and now he 's mending car |
| 22 | Yeah , he 's been working all day Paul |
| 23 | That was below the belt , but instead of stopping there while she was still in one piece , she drove on in a high , hectoring voice , ‘ Do n't you think your daughter deserves a little rest instead of going home to slave for you after she 's been working all week ? ’ |
| 24 | The sun 's been shining all week over Hereford : United are on a high , five goals against Colchester was the best news there 's been for years at Edgar Street . |
| 25 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |
| 26 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 27 | A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this . |
| 28 | Our Nicola 's been moaning all week ! |
| 29 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 30 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |