Example sentences of "[pron] 's been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | " She 'll part with one of those diamonds she 's been clinging to . " |
| 2 | ‘ But then , she 's been topping to us lately . |
| 3 | She 's been writing to the Health Minister , her local MP and Norma Major every day for 2 weeks and plans to continue . |
| 4 | ‘ She 's been talking to you about me then ? ’ |
| 5 | ‘ She upset her hosts by her grumpy behaviour in Korea and we believe she 's been talking to Morton 's people again . |
| 6 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 7 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 8 | And finally we impeached a man called Waddell who 's been boasting to everyone in Barlinnie Jail that he and another man did it . ’ |
| 9 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 10 | Who 's been gossiping to you about her running away with the married man when she was fifteen and ending up in the Daily Record ? |
| 11 | Cos Lee , since this one 's been talking to him all the time |
| 12 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |
| 13 | Perhaps he 's been listening to it , too , and thinking of me . |
| 14 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Whatever he 's been doing to you , he wo n't do it again . |
| 16 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 17 | Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox is leading the enquiry he 's been talking to Nigel Bell and telling him they 're convinced that the same girl has made all the phone calls . |
| 18 | Well , to be honest , it seems to , I Peter 's got the details cos he 's been talking to er , the public health clerk . |
| 19 | Erm , if he 's been going to er , erm , in the unlikely , er , twelve months , that it 's unlikely that he 's going to have more than twelve months to live . |
| 20 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 21 | he 's been going to bed too late ! |
| 22 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 23 | ‘ What 's been getting to you ? ’ |
| 24 | As a producer , MacCabe is naturally enough dismayed by this pro-directorial bias : ‘ If you look at what 's been happening to British cinema over the last 10 years or so , then it 's clear that it has tended to be production-led — names like Working Title , Palace Films or Zenith are as important as those of any individual director . |
| 25 | What 's been happening to you ? |
| 26 | It 's er just what 's been happening to a lot of folk , sinus trouble . |
| 27 | None of what 's been happening to her lately has sat well with her temperament . |
| 28 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
| 29 | He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’ |