Example sentences of "[pron] 's been [verb] for " in BNC.
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31 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
32 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
33 | Th it 's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee , and chocolate which we all adore , is , is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world . |
34 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
35 | It 's been condemned for years now . |
36 | And I think kids should be encouraged to erm think about themselves rather than just tick boxes and I think er , er er a group of sentences down here written by the form teacher , by the subject teacher and the pupil erm , as it 's been done for about , for a few years , a good habit to get the kids into , erm especially as a record of achievement should start from year seven . |
37 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
38 | It 's been done for Venus and for Mercury about twenty years ago . |
39 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
40 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
41 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
42 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
43 | It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least . |
44 | ‘ It 's been examined for fingerprints . |
45 | It 's been treated for burns but is expected to survive even without it 's mother . |
46 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
47 | Everyone remembers Star Trek , it 's been going for twenty five years |
48 | in time and it 's been going for about five years . |
49 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
50 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
51 | It 's been going for about two now |
52 | Yeah but I do n't think it 's been updated for so long . |
53 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
54 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
55 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
56 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
57 | It 's been used for centuries in the crafting of Buddhist religious statues and the grain is absolutely spectacular . |
58 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |
59 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |
60 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |