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

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1 She 's been jumping about and going all larming And I do n't know why no reason .
2 Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s .
3 He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life .
4 School is something Sophie 's been looking forward to for ages , and it 's not long before she 's settled in .
5 Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks .
6 He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’
7 This man has got hold of her , and the family 's been looking everywhere .
8 But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him .
9 And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’
10 She 's been flying round !
11 ‘ I would if I could — but he 's been flying back and forth to Australia like a damned Yo-Yo !
12 ‘ Do n't think I do n't know what 's been goin' on . ’
13 There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years .
14 He 's been getting steadily worse for years .
15 I looked at his ball lying there and I thought , ‘ Well , I know he 's been getting up and down from bunkers all week , that 's one of his great strengths , but he 's going to have to work hard here . ’
16 It 's been getting too frightening .
17 ‘ Over the last ten years it 's been getting much worse .
18 She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha !
19 I mean everyone knows she fancies him , but like , she 's been getting really flirty !
20 Er but that 's been taking about six years now
21 Anyway Lisa 's been flirting badly with Ricky for ages !
22 ‘ Resistance probably undermined by this hot climate you tell me he 's been living in .
23 I mean she 's been living off what seventy three odd quid has she ?
24 ‘ It 's been buzzing along quite well lately but the murder — the real murder , that is — has thrown me rather badly .
25 Lynn says … she could n't have wished for a bigger meeting in which to make her first run for Britain … she 's been training hard since the end of the track season and is in good form
26 Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester .
27 ‘ It 's been building up to this .
28 The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’
29 ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while .
30 As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing .
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