Example sentences of "[pron] 's [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , luckily enough she 's just been able enough to do her own thing ai n't she ? |
| 2 | yeah , they 'll be , and she 's always moaning driving Sue up the wall , why should I keep him blah , blah , blah , blah , doing nothing , we sit and look at each other and Sue said for Christ sake she said you 're twenty years old , not forty , she 'd been bad on and off again , throat , well she had the shoulder , throat er she thought she had , oh the diabetes was one were n't it , diabetes one , they thought she had , thought that she had glandular fever but she has n't and er , so Sue said to her well are you looking after yourself and she said yes I am , Sue said well I du n no she never seems to be , cos she 's never been well has she really ? |
| 3 | ‘ She 's never been married , damn you ! ’ |
| 4 | She 's never been involved with another woman ! ’ |
| 5 | She 's never been able to afford the upkeep of it . |
| 6 | I mean , she 's always been that way nervous and |
| 7 | ‘ She 's always been deep , ’ Bridie said . |
| 8 | She 's always been active all her life . |
| 9 | She 's always been afraid , I think , to fully make a life for herself , in case she was missing out , in case it all changed . |
| 10 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
| 11 | No no , I I , I mean , she 's always been alright with me really , I mean , y you know , she 's not not at all mother-in-law , she 's not |
| 12 | Yeah , she 's always been alright with me , you know , so I ca n't say about anybody else , I mean she 's already , she 's always been really nice to me , but like them people she goes around , well she used to go around with Lisa and Vicky and all that lot and when she used to go around with them she used to be bitching them off behind their back and going oh you 're my best friend , to their faces . |
| 13 | I , I , think that there is you know , something er ba er mechanically amiss as well , but er you see , you know , she , she says that she 's , she 's certainly been able to visit , which is mum 's favourite expression , a lot better |
| 14 | ‘ It 's not as if she 's ever been any different , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , you 're very noisy when you come back for somebody who 's only been sociable , so you are . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I do n't think anybody 's ever been better , except for Sol Hoopi , the steel guitar man , who was never really recorded properly . |
| 19 | Meanwhile a row of ten cottages has been put up by a local builder at a cost of twenty five thousand pounds.And although they 're made of plywood , there 's already been one prospective purchaser : |
| 20 | Anyone else wanting to cash in on the end of the Cold War is advised to get a move on — there 's already been considerable interest in the Wroughton air yard and the agents expect to sell it by the autumn . |
| 21 | But since we 've been on the flats , there 's probably been half a dozen muggings . |
| 22 | There 's also been keen interest from Eastern Europe . |
| 23 | Well there 's certainly been one element of the the input to the preparation of the structure plan , but there has also been some independent view on the the capacity and the the environmental problems that individual districts across North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire have in their ability to accommodate development , and on the pressure and the problems that those pressures of development will have on those individual districts , bearing in mind the environmental constraints identified both in National and in the Secretary of State 's previous approval of the structure plan . |
| 24 | He 's Lieutenant General Sir Peter de la Beliaire , and as President Bush says , there 's never been such international cooperation against an aggressor . |
| 25 | Through all my sentences , and if you add them together , I 've done twenty-one , twenty-two months in all , there 's never been one day when I 've kept my mouth shut , without an argument or something . |
| 26 | Tapping his cheese knife in rhythm on the edge of the table , Martin said , ‘ I do n't know whether you 've noticed , but there 's never been much love lost between your mother and me . |
| 27 | ‘ There 's never been much of a plan , so there 's no reason to cancel out any initial plans of getting degrees and going on and doing something else . ’ |
| 28 | But there 's never been much interest around here . |
| 29 | There 's never been much doubt about Kitson . |
| 30 | Clint : ‘ There 's never been any doubt for us right form the first time we came over . |