Example sentences of "'s been [art] [noun] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | There 's been no shortage of excuses in the past few weeks for getting thoroughly ratted , for going down to The Lamb , finding a spot in the corner and spending the entire evening doing nothing more intellectually taxing than sinking five pints of Special . |
2 | Well , it 's been a story of ups and downs . |
3 | My wife 's been a couple of times si since then but not me . |
4 | I mean there 's been a couple of times that he 's really lost his temper with her and erm and , and really flown off the handle , badly . |
5 | Oh yeah she 's been a couple of times to see if I 'd swap . |
6 | ‘ And that 's something else you do n't know , there 's been a revolution in buses as well . |
7 | Trains are n't what they were , there 's been a revolution in trains . ’ |
8 | ‘ There 's been a reversal to bands saying , ‘ We 're just in it for the music ’ , and we 're not like that at all . |
9 | But , I mean the concern Carters Mead Resident 's Association I think is well founded , I think there 's been a lot of problems and er I think it can come upon us all to keep talking with them and to improve the situation should the should Woolwich back out . |
10 | a point at the moment , with the life of the county , I think that we should great potential and great opportunity available to us , and I do hope that all members will er , and I 've written to all our members of parliament with a copy of my letter , er , I had I 've had er , I know it 's been the Christmas period , and that they 're only just getting back into things , and there 's been a lot of diversions at length , and I do have a letter from , er I heard from er , Edward , er , Mr Edward Lee , and and , I still have to hear it from er , the rest of them . |
11 | ‘ There 's been a lot of accidents , ’ he said . |
12 | Could be political , perhaps — there 's been a lot of rows about politics lately . ’ |
13 | The company in charge of marketing the farm says there 's been a lot of inquiries . |
14 | Tied up with poll tax , it was done before poll tax was erm it 's only just been announced because there 's been a lot of negotiations going on , but the figure was committed before poll tax came into being — right ? |
15 | Yep , there 's been a lot of occasions in the last two to three months when I could really have done with access to a computer . |
16 | Some of the er that measure is not actually effective or not possible in the context of of the facility er I think there 's been a search for measures which will be effective and er erm that 's what the efforts gone in to , finding an effective way of preventing it . |
17 | And there 's been a string of others . |
18 | as if to bear this out , there 's been a flood of portables announced recently . |
19 | In the last twenty four hours there 's been a series of fires started by a handful of men in this block , though no cells have been damaged . |
20 | it might not be blatantly obvious to them that there , there 's been an improvement in communications . |
21 | There 's been an acceleration of incidents in the last five years . |
22 | I 've met him three or four times when he 's been the compere of things that I 've had some three-minute act on , and we 've seemed to get on together , but he 's not really what I go for . |