Example sentences of "'s been [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 2 | I would n't think it 's been played in a cinema for years . |
| 3 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 4 | I 'm not a frog that 's been kissed by a princess or whatever the fairy tale is . |
| 5 | It 's been caused by a delay in the operation to move a bridge crossing the M4 near the Severn estuary . |
| 6 | she 's been living with a brother . |
| 7 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 8 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 9 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 10 | It 's been hit by a dose of fly spray ! |
| 11 | It 's the tenth time already this year Thames Valley Police have dealt with an offence where a member of the public 's been threatened with a gun . |
| 12 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 13 | After all , he 's been pictured with a host of celebrities , including Rod Stewart and now Shirley Bassey . |
| 14 | He 's been speaking at a debate on the issue in Strasbourg . |
| 15 | So we can now advise people that if they take a bird in that 's been injured by a cat , they give it a shot of antibiotics — great , cures the septicaemia . |
| 16 | The door 's been locked with a command level override . ’ |
| 17 | Later on we took them to Woody Swinbank 's at Mickleton , but that 's been turned into a pub now , appropriately called the Blacksmith 's Arms . |
| 18 | And as for the delay in writing , do n't you have any idea how time-consuming it is , looking after someone who 's been paralysed by a stroke ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The kennels failed health and safety standards , so they 're half finished — nothing 's been done for a year . |
| 20 | A man 's been charged after a fight at a pub between rival groups of football fans . |
| 21 | Their head has been in t touch with the bed , their heels , but the whole body 's been arched like a bow with the contraction of these muscles . |
| 22 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |
| 23 | It 's been developed by a farmer 's wife . |
| 24 | It 's been developed by a consultant diabetologist , Dr S Greene , and his wife Alexandra , with cartoons by Barrie Appleby of Beano fame . |
| 25 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 26 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 27 | A Bloke 's been sacked from a job for having a tattoo of Betty Boop. so it says . |
| 28 | And Derek 's been replaced by a machine ! |
| 29 | That 's been examined by a gunsmith who says the gun was real . |
| 30 | That 's been examined by a gunsmith who says the gun was real . |