Example sentences of "'s [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now she 's been made Head Girl ; the first in 450 years . |
| 32 | Over the years , though , it 's been made smaller and also shallower . |
| 33 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 34 | ‘ He 's been declared bankrupt . ’ |
| 35 | If you believe them , Simon 's been sighted eight hundred different places and you 've been caught fifty times … ’ |
| 36 | A Bosnian evacuee who 's been receiving medical treatment in this country claims there are more deserving casualties still suffering in the war zone . |
| 37 | Erm because of a social evening er we had a raffle and a whiskey bowl I think the purists might not like the E in whiskey but that 's the way it 's been done that must be the southern way . |
| 38 | Well I think it 's been done that 's the problem . |
| 39 | I mean , there 's a few that 's been done that have n't been caught anyway . |
| 40 | It would be absolutely disastrous if after the excellent work that 's been done this year we were not able to maintain that . |
| 41 | Finally , Dawn came here , where she 's been given practical and moral support . |
| 42 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |
| 43 | John Gorman says it 's good value for an international striker and he 's been given great support by the board to go and out and strengthen the side … he thinks Jan will help them in the premier league … , |
| 44 | Thank you , yes , I think in a course of er , er explanation that 's been given this morning , there was a reference to H G V eight diversion , now I 'm concerned that if in fact that means that er H G Vs are increasingly using the route through Culford there are two very severe right angle bends on that road and I should erm like to see the police take some action to persuade H G V to ban that route er I mean can we do a ban on the early section of it with in particular to like angle bends are ? |
| 45 | I also give a guarantee that it is n't just a one off situation , meeting we all go away and forget about what we 've said I can assure you that wo n't happen minutes have been taken and and what 's been said this evening that will be conveyed to the management committee meeting the board meeting and I think we need to look very clearly at a very closely what 's been said and respond to what 's been said and I think that it 's been suggested also raised this evening about having a further meeting to report back and say erm this has been said this is our response . |
| 46 | The the Council looking at the whole process of how it spends it money what it does , I think the theatre the start of this evening we were looking quite close about what we do and how we do it what we do n't do and what we should do and I think from what 's been said this evening will be re look closely the questions you 've raised things that you 've raised we 'll report it back to you in the hope of this meeting that we 'll actually moved forward because I think it 's in everybody interest everybody 's interest if the playhouse closes . |
| 47 | She 's been gone two years and you never asked before . ’ |
| 48 | We used to , we , I used to go when my husband was alive we used to go to erm Devon cos I had a brother living in Devon we used to go there , but er unfortunately I lost him when he was only fifty with a coronary , and so erm , in , cos and after that I lost my husband you see so cos we I 've never been away like that before , not , not since , years ago that was , he 's been gone twenty one years this Christmas sixteenth might be so , I 've not been able to so I , I , I go with the erm , I went with the Red Cross this year the year before last I went erm er , Char Charlie took me away we went to er a chalet we stayed at and er a friend of mine we went there for a week had a week there , that poured of rain every day , this year it poured of rain every day |
| 49 | She 's been screaming all ear . |
| 50 | Melanie 's beautiful , wilful , and she 's been spoiled rotten all her life . ’ |
| 51 | anyone who 's been drinking all afternoon if you want to er , wander across |
| 52 | I daresay she 's been drinking some concoction of raspberry leaves and pennyroyal . |
| 53 | He 's been granted conditional bail until October the twenty-second . |
| 54 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 55 | ‘ It 's Dieter 's section that 's been handling this , so I 'll let him fill in the background . ’ |
| 56 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |
| 57 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 58 | They looked like they acted quite properly erm and er unfortunately someone 's been shot dead . |
| 59 | So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable . |
| 60 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |