Example sentences of "he 's been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time he 's been wearing protective clothing . |
| 2 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 3 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 4 | He 's been training hard and looks sharp . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | He 's been enjoying terrific sport with bream to 3.5lb and tench to 3lb on the Plex Lane stretch . |
| 7 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 14 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |
| 15 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 16 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 17 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 18 | He 's been showing some Americans round Oxford this morning — and he 's got a lecture this afternoon , so … |
| 19 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |
| 20 | erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee . |
| 21 | He 's been saying that over a year . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len . |
| 23 | I think he 's a right lying git , I could n't , he 's been a right lying git , he 's been saying all the things that he 's supposed to say instead of the truth |
| 24 | And he 's been saying some very wild things to George . |
| 25 | I also find that he 's been quoting some twelve hour figures and the only ones I have , you may have them er Mr chairman , are from the H and T C report in July of last year where they forecasted four thousand nine hundred on the A six five eight and achieve eight thousa for nineteen ninety six and achieved eight thousand one hundred now . |
| 26 | He 's mending car , he 's been working all day and now he 's mending car |
| 27 | Yeah , he 's been working all day Paul |
| 28 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |
| 29 | Oh he 's been crayoning OK . |