Example sentences of "'s [be] [v-ing] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 2 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 3 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 4 | A council that 's been paying for a fourteen-year-old criminal to stay in Spain has been criticised in court . |
| 5 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 6 | you know , that G P's that 's been practising for a long number of years you know er , elderly G P's are probably not as up-to-date on these kind of things as they should be . |