Example sentences of "'s been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 2 | he erm , he 's given Stuart our phone number and Stuart 's been shouting this , this is Geoff 's phone number I mean he 's , he 's been telling every body our phone number , I says yeah you just let somebody ring us up and I 'll bloody well be round their house like a shot if they phone , they |
| 3 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 4 | This time he 's been wearing protective clothing . |
| 5 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 6 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 7 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , yes , it 's been getting worse lately , ’ says Bob Busby . |
| 9 | The pain 's been getting worse and I ca n't stop the bleeding . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's been getting worse . ’ |
| 11 | No , she 's been getting enough of that . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated . |
| 14 | Now , with accountants trying to find whether pension money was used to help Oxford out of their financial difficulties , he 's coming to terms with the possibility he 's been supporting United in more ways than one … |
| 15 | He 's been enjoying terrific sport with bream to 3.5lb and tench to 3lb on the Plex Lane stretch . |
| 16 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 17 | He 's been training hard and looks sharp . |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | A Bosnian evacuee who 's been receiving medical treatment in this country claims there are more deserving casualties still suffering in the war zone . |
| 20 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 21 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 22 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 23 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 24 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 28 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 29 | 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 |
| 30 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |