Example sentences of "[pron] 's been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'm crying because someone 's been nasty to me , he 'll want to rush away and knock their block off ’ , said one woman , ‘ for anything else he 'll just sit there and look miserable and uncomfortable until I feel I 'm supposed to comfort him ’ . |
| 2 | The children come home with news — someone 's been sick , and so on — that you probably would n't hear about otherwise . |
| 3 | ‘ Someone 's been hard at work , I see . ’ |
| 4 | Well it 's it , it 's very much like , you know , a lot of things I 've come across in everyday language where , where people , I do n't know , er friends and relatives have found out that somebody 's been gay , oh well I never thought it of him , he seemed like such a nice person as well |
| 5 | Now she wants to sell it , but the buyer must allow them to play on and as yet nobody 's been prepared to . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been marvellous . ’ |
| 7 | No she 's been awake and asleep and awake and asleep all day today there 's no pattern today . |
| 8 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 9 | She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all . |
| 10 | I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’ |
| 11 | She 's been foul to poor Adam . ’ |
| 12 | She 's been absent several days this month . |
| 13 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 14 | on their own back , she did n't ask for it and June ai n't worked since Christmas , so er , I says I know what it 's like with my sister and I mean she 's been right in it ai n't she ? |
| 15 | No but she 's been critical of lots of other people . |
| 16 | He told people of a bag he 'd lent to her and which was found with her body ; He said his fingerprints would be all over his wife 's cars steering wheel ; and he told the police she 's been violent and upset when he left him . |
| 17 | ‘ I would never have made it home if it was n't for Wyn , she 's been fantastic , ’ said Norman . |
| 18 | Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before . |
| 19 | Dave and I er were grabbed by the throat by em a woman and her husband from Worksop called and woman called Barbara , and she 's been involved with er a fella called Superintendent er in West Yorkshire . |
| 20 | I expect she 's been bored lately . ’ |
| 21 | She moistened her lips and said pleadingly , ‘ She 's been good to poor Dilys . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , she 's been good to you , I 'm not denying that , but she ca n't stand the sight of me — never could . |
| 23 | She 's been good to me . ’ |
| 24 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 25 | She 's been married , got two kids — how on earth she gave birth to those two children , is beyond me , how on earth she made it is beyond me . |
| 26 | And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's been lonely since Danny went , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 28 | She 's been magic ! |
| 29 | ‘ In the past , ’ he said as he returned to Robbie 's side , ‘ she 's been accustomed to sleeping at the foot of my bed . |
| 30 | He feels his mother should be able to stay in the house she 's been happy in . ’ |