Example sentences of "she 's been [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Apparently she 's been off all week . |
2 | She 's been off her face quite a lot actually . |
3 | Ever since she 's been under threat of eviction . |
4 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
5 | If she 's been under stress . |
6 | ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’ |
7 | She 's been on the sauce for years . |
8 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
9 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
10 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
11 | Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it |
12 | Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times . |
13 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
14 | gone with the , the , from the college there , she 's been on an art course and they 're going round er , art galleries and museums and places like that |
15 | Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are |
16 | Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer . |
17 | She 's been on holiday . |
18 | I mean because she 's been on the |
19 | eh ? mm she 's been on the phone , they 've rang Blackpool now , gon na get back |
20 | ‘ She 's been with me in Cambridge all day — I told her she could have Sunday off . ’ |
21 | Strictly speaking , you can make beautiful love to your wife for five months and three weeks after finding out that she 's been with someone else , and then turn round and say ‘ I find it intolerable to stay with you ’ . |
22 | She 's been with them now for just over a month , and Angelica has never known a worker like her . |
23 | then one day she rang and asked to come over — and we went to collect her and she 's been with us ever since . |
24 | Now as was saying earlier on , that she 's been with flowers all her life , well I have n't . |
25 | ‘ She 's been with him longer than anyone else on his staff . |
26 | She 's been with us all for a long time . |
27 | She 's been with you , has n't she ? |
28 | Er , she runs the whole of this course , and erm she 's been with the school for years . |
29 | Did , do you know , do you know if she 's been with someone ? |
30 | She 's been at it all afternoon . ’ |