Example sentences of "he 's [been] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas .
2 Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs .
3 He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison .
4 He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’
5 He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated .
6 Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee .
7 He 's been going for three hours .
8 Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ?
9 Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ?
10 And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ?
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