Example sentences of "'s been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ I gather she 's been causing more trouble . ’ |
| 2 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 3 | This time he 's been wearing protective clothing . |
| 4 | Hilary , who 's been producing religious programmes for BBC radio , has not yet decided whether she 'll go back to work after having the baby . |
| 5 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's been enjoying terrific sport with bream to 3.5lb and tench to 3lb on the Plex Lane stretch . |
| 8 | Yeah , well I mean I do n't know what she 's been earning this Liz , but |
| 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 | A Bosnian evacuee who 's been receiving medical treatment in this country claims there are more deserving casualties still suffering in the war zone . |
| 11 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 12 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 13 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |
| 15 | But the International Air Tattoo does n't just help those who 've served with the RAF — for the past ten years it 's been helping disabled people learn to fly . |
| 16 | I went out I went out with Peggy er on Wednesday er for meal and she 's been saving Daily Telegraph vouchers and when you got so many vouchers you send them up to the Daily Telegraph , who 's sent them , it 's offers closed now and they send you a thing like a credit card and they send you a list of all the places that you can go to for a half- price meal |
| 17 | I think it 's been raining all night which is hardly April showers . |
| 18 | It seemed as if she 's been awaiting this opportunity for years . |
| 19 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 20 | It 's been doing that work on behalf of OSF , which could presumably use the stuff as some kind of a bargaining chip in the latest round of talks with Unix System Labs ( UX Nos 387 , 388 ) . |
| 21 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 22 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 23 | ‘ So you would n't know what she 's been doing this week . ’ |
| 24 | and , somebody ha erm nobody really knew a great deal about it , so I think he 's been doing some research on that . |
| 25 | Yeah , oh Belinda 's been going bloody crackers again |
| 26 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 28 | It says , that not only does it save it 's money when it comes to when we 're putting in the tender bids , but actually the profits it makes goes back into the County Council , it has a two- prong saving of averages to this council , and we 've known and seen in the years that it 's been running that money has come back into county council balances , which means that we can have more money to spend on other services . |
| 29 | Were open I mean there 's been lots of things done like that I mean you maybe aware of this sort of jazz in the Gilbey bar on Saturday lunch time and that 's been running some time then it 'll cease to come back again you know if you 'll actually counting on the people actually coming cos of the jazz there I think as your looking at it it was slightly up it was n't a was n't great influx because there was jazz available so yeah we 'll certainly look introducing things into different areas of the theatre but from past experience it does n't automatically follow that if you can do that then you know it 's gon na happen . |
| 30 | He 's been showing some Americans round Oxford this morning — and he 's got a lecture this afternoon , so … |