Example sentences of "'s [been] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David 's been collecting cones for more than thirty years and since then he 's accumulated some real beauties . |
| 2 | Maybe she learned something that could help us find the person who 's been using Delia 's name . ’ |
| 3 | She 's been using Gloucestershire 's libraries for ninety three years . |
| 4 | ‘ Fred 's been to take Dad out for a drink , ’ they explained . |
| 5 | One resident , who did n't want to be named , moaned yesterday : ‘ It 's been called Eldorado Close for 30 years and we all used to like it . |
| 6 | erm , well I think it 's , do , erm I do n't know whether you understand what 's been asked doctor it cou it 's a question of costs , er normally where er matters erm are dealt with in chambers for in counsel appear then erm these counsel do n't get paid for the other side erm unless there is certificate for counsel as I understand it , were the , were the counsel appeared before the Judge erm they are entitled to their costs and this is er an appeal to the Judge , but er what I think Mr is saying is , in case he happens to be wrong in that he would like an order that er his fees should be proper fees of the defen of the plaintiffs on this appeal and er such as you could say seems to me that er , that is a , that would be proper |
| 7 | The factory 's been producing leather goods for more than seventy years at the same site . |
| 8 | ‘ He 's been seeing Jessie and ’ — she bowed her head — ‘ she 's going to have a baby . ’ |
| 9 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 10 | Elizabeth was crying because Angharad 's been destroying things in the house . ’ |
| 11 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |
| 12 | Bryan Burnett 's been getting chatty with that showbiz legend Cilla Black . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition . |
| 15 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 16 | ‘ Do n't tell me your man 's been taking pot shots at a Rembrandt . ’ |
| 17 | you do it after six days when the baby 's been taking milk , you may well find something wrong . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 20 | That was a request from Charlotte , she 's been demanding chocolate biscuits . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ It turns out he 's been syphoning money off the firm . |
| 22 | We know who 's been organising acid house parties for the past year . |
| 23 | Like most Liberal Democrats he 's been emphasising education , as his presence greeting parents outside a school in Oxford 's Jericho demonstrated . |
| 24 | At the moment we just give it to Rojas — he 's the fourth assistant and a local and he 's been appointed postman . |
| 25 | Speaking as an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since nineteen sixty two , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 26 | Speaking as a , an old university hack who 's been teaching courses in this place since 1962 , the Shakespeare course is the one thing which is utterly and deeply different every time I teach it . |
| 27 | On the second erm erm issue the commitments in Greater York , erm Mr has has made good progress erm on this erm and he 's been had discussions this morning with er district colleagues and hopefully we we are nearly there on that one . |
| 28 | Leofwine 's been made Bishop of Lichfield . |
| 29 | ‘ Dad is n't going to have to go away any more — he 's been made vice-president — gon na sit in an office all day right here in Tollemarche . ’ |
| 30 | Kevin Maxwell , who 's been declared Britain 's biggest bankrupt , will be keeping his family 's luxury home in Oxfordshire . |