Example sentences of "who 's [adv] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Afterwards in the Shoulder of Mutton ( Kneeton Park 1 Knayton 1 ) it transpired that he 's in what used to be known as Tin Pan Alley probably the only manager in the Hambleton Combination ( third division ) who 's also been a manager of the Bay City Rollers . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh God , every day it seems I 'm speaking to a mate who 's just been robbed , ’ said Woody , sometime Cross Key 's barman , in his thick Lancashire accent . |
| 3 | Trying to dissuade a father from sending his gay teenager to a psychiatrist ; calming someone who 's just been beaten up in a police cell ; sharing someone 's joy at discovering that there 's another lesbian in the next village , all serve to remove some of the complacency which can so easily set in . |
| 4 | Now before Neil starts panicking and worrying about that , bear in mind that that is spread over the whole spectrum of operations , including things like heart transplants and the like , and also , for example , an elderly person who 's just been smashed up by er Astra G T E |
| 5 | ‘ That 'd be a clever trick for someone who 's just been blown up . ’ |
| 6 | He 's a very , very emotional , unstable dictator , who 's just been determined somehow to exploit his position geographically , in the Middle East , to try and emerge as a sort of mini superpower , and to that end , he 's done a lot of terrible things , of which the invasion of Kuwait was really only one . |
| 7 | Like a woman who 's just been well and truly kissed . |
| 8 | That 's the motto of an 82-year-old North Yorkshire woman who 's just been accepted into the Writers Guild . |
| 9 | A man who 's already been to jail for killing a policeman is going back to prison tonight after a judge increased his sentence . |
| 10 | But chairman , Ken Bates , who 's today been launching a close-season tournament the Londoners are involved in , refused to be drawn on his identity . |
| 11 | Who 's fucking been cut the bottom off my ? |
| 12 | There is somebody in that company , who 's probably been with it for nine months , who knows it backwards and who 's capable of playing the role . |
| 13 | ‘ There 's a guy here who 's only been down three days . |
| 14 | ‘ For someone who 's only been here twice , she seems very familiar with the layout of the house , ’ Jessamy retorted . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you 're very noisy when you come back for somebody who 's only been sociable , so you are . ’ |
| 16 | Miki , who 's often been portrayed as ‘ one of the boys ’ : ‘ It 's bollocks really . |
| 17 | I write as someone who 's always been able to take or leave Harrison Birtwistle 's music : the oeuvre as a whole arouses my respect , and impresses by its fiercely-defined character and self-consistency , but only a limited number of pieces ( among them The Triumph of Time , The fields of Sorrow , Melancolia I , Carmen Arcadiae Mechanicae Perpetuum ) have spoken to me strongly and cried out for repeated listening . |
| 18 | than a woman who 's always been either under her father 's thumb , or brother 's thumb , and then gets passed to yours ? |
| 19 | It 's believed the Duke had hoped his son 's marriage to Becky Few Brown would be the making of the Marquis , a former drug addict who 's twice been to prison . |
| 20 | My old inspector who 's now been and gone , came from Newark , and he said that there was far more trouble within the public houses in Newark , er than ever there was here and he came here , imagining the problem to be a lot worse . |
| 21 | Baroness Susan De Stempel , who 's now been released , claims the police forced her to admit she stole a fortune from her senile aunt . |
| 22 | Anybody who 's actually been in a war is very reluctant to see other people stumbling into an unnecessary one . |
| 23 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 24 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose you 're like all the rest — a city-kid who 's never been away from the busy streets before . ’ |
| 26 | A man who 's never been afraid to stick his head in among the flying boots , Moran 's medical records are thicker — and gorier — than a short horror novel . |
| 27 | Well , when you say this lot , actually , it , it 's not er , actually a government body , this , in fact er , the Commons ' Heritage Committee , er these are the people who are announcing this price rise , in the proposals yesterday , they 're , they 're actually led by Gerald Kaufman , who 's never been a Conservative in his life . |