Example sentences of "'s [been] [v-ing] [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 | The factory 's been producing leather goods for more than seventy years at the same site . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's been seeing Jessie and ’ — she bowed her head — ‘ she 's going to have a baby . ’ |
| 6 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 7 | Elizabeth was crying because Angharad 's been destroying things in the house . ’ |
| 8 | For Ken Stanier , who 's been harvesting apples for 40 years , it 's good news . |
| 9 | Bryan Burnett 's been getting chatty with that showbiz legend Cilla Black . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 's been taking tablets ever since and they appear to have controlled his condition . |
| 12 | From what I can gather from Joanie , she 's been taking drugs since her last year at school . |
| 13 | ‘ Do n't tell me your man 's been taking pot shots at a Rembrandt . ’ |
| 14 | you do it after six days when the baby 's been taking milk , you may well find something wrong . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 17 | That was a request from Charlotte , she 's been demanding chocolate biscuits . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ It turns out he 's been syphoning money off the firm . |
| 19 | We know who 's been organising acid house parties for the past year . |
| 20 | Like most Liberal Democrats he 's been emphasising education , as his presence greeting parents outside a school in Oxford 's Jericho demonstrated . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And Billy Smallbury , she wants you to go to Casterbridge , to see if you can find the young soldier who 's been courting Fanny . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He 's been trying grass again today . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps she 's been thinking things out and she feels a bit sorry for you . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ My first thought was , ‘ Oh my God , Carly 's been eating apples and drinking their juice almost all her life — ten years . |
| 28 | He 's been helping Mark put together the Business Plan and the presentation . |
| 29 | However , the two of them stayed up late last night , drinking my best booze , and this morning Em 's been slamming doors quite a bit , and giving me dirty looks . |
| 30 | ‘ Leon 's been touring England for the past ten days , Delia . |