Example sentences of "he 's been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |
| 2 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 3 | there 's a story here in the paper , I do n't know whether you 've read it about a little boy , ten weeks old and he 's been born with all his organs on the wrong side of his body |
| 4 | " 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 . |
| 5 | Try telling that to Niall — a practised afternoon riser back home — at breakfast after he 's been assaulted by crack-of-dawn alarm calls . |
| 6 | He 's been named as thirty-five-year-old John FitzGerald from Swindon . |
| 7 | And he 's been wrestling with this alsatian |
| 8 | his leg , so erm , he 's been moved to Royal hospital , I went to see him yesterday and he did n't stop talking about you , bless him |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 11 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 12 | He 's been seen with glamorous celebrities like Princess Stephanie and East German ice-skater Katarina Witt , but Boris Becker always seems happiest with ex-waitress Karen Schulz . |
| 13 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 14 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 's been spotted in more places than Elvis Presley . ’ |
| 17 | He 's been trapped by giant plants and ca n't get out ! ’ |
| 18 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
| 19 | " He 's been shaking like this ever since he was sixteen years old , " the Keraing told us , " when he first had the experience which made him take up the profession . |
| 20 | He 's been diving into local affairs to help raise money for charity . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So he 's been reduced to other expedients . ’ |
| 23 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 24 | I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare . |
| 25 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 26 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |
| 27 | It 's a long time since he 's been held like this . |
| 28 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |
| 29 | It 's just a lot more difficult for a man to admit he 's been hurt by another man . |
| 30 | Additionally , he 's been working with Left Hand Right Hand , who 've just toured the States , while his other musical activities have seen him involved with British Racing Green and Danielle Dax , with whom he plays bass from time to time . |