Example sentences of "'s been [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 2 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 3 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 4 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 5 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |
| 6 | You see , these up here 's been up a long time . |
| 7 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 8 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 9 | His father 's been dead a long time and he has-had — two brothers . ’ |
| 10 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 11 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 12 | Good god that 's been there a long time . |
| 13 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |
| 14 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 15 | it 's been quite a nice day really |
| 16 | I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money . |
| 17 | Just a few years ago , it was raised from 4p , so there 's been quite a big increase already . |
| 18 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |
| 19 | I have n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing , but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the university and to sort of expand my contacts , and the Meeting House is one of those places which is open to the general public on Sundays for religious worship . |
| 20 | I had n't actually managed to make it yet this term because of all the teaching preparation I 've been doing but erm I 've done that for the last two years and erm it 's been quite an important activity because it enabled me , after I came back down to Lewes , to help to get to know a few people in the University and to sort of expand my contacts . |