Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's be [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ She 's been telling tales behind my back ! |
| 4 | That was a request from Charlotte , she 's been demanding chocolate biscuits . |
| 5 | She 's been using Gloucestershire 's libraries for ninety three years . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps she 's been thinking things out and she feels a bit sorry for you . ’ |
| 7 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 8 | She 's been working flat out every day since I came ; from at least 8.30am till way past my bedtime . |
| 9 | She 's been studying photography at Aylesbury College since then — forced to put her career as a nurse on hold . |
| 10 | Do you she 's been shopping Tuesday and Wednesday . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | I try to work out if she 's got a period due or if she 's been having trouble with her mother . |
| 13 | She 's been having therapy . |
| 14 | Hello Claire says she 's been doing pie charts on your computer . |
| 15 | One , one er stress in my , on what happens so that , that it 's companying it 's been manufacturing leg irons that 's been going out there to the Nile , has n't it , was n't it to . |
| 16 | It 's been blowing water out . |
| 17 | Like most Liberal Democrats he 's been emphasising education , as his presence greeting parents outside a school in Oxford 's Jericho demonstrated . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He 's been telling businessmen and women that Britain 's prosperity depends on their export success . |
| 20 | He 's been telling FOX F M's Robin Powell that most of the job losses have already occurred . |
| 21 | He 's been helping Mark put together the Business Plan and the presentation . |
| 22 | He 's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ It turns out he 's been syphoning money off the firm . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's been trying grass again today . |
| 27 | ‘ He 's been seeing Jessie and ’ — she bowed her head — ‘ she 's going to have a baby . ’ |
| 28 | Since the dawn of a new era , when he signed for Phonogram in 1985 , he 's been making records which do n't shame his reputation and often add to it . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He would lead us to believe the classic amp designers were mere technicians , while he 's been making tube amps since 1957 . |