Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's be [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 2 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 3 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 4 | 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 ? ’ |
| 5 | She 's been crying all night really . |
| 6 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 7 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 8 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 9 | It 's been revealed that multi-millionaire Paul Getty is donating a million pounds for a building to house the map and the famous chained library . |
| 10 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 11 | But it 's been demolished this year . |
| 12 | Monica , the nursery nurse , told me : They all know what it 's like to come in and say , " I hate that child , it 's been crying all night " ; whereas they feel reluctant to say that to other people because people are looking at them and their age . |
| 13 | Apparently it 's been practising that technique , and had a sample of the little thing with it on its road trip last week . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | It 's been selling all day . |
| 18 | It 's been banging all day because I ca n't be bothered to go out there and shut it . |
| 19 | It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 22 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 23 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 24 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |
| 25 | He 's mending car , he 's been working all day and now he 's mending car |
| 26 | Yeah , he 's been working all day Paul |