Example sentences of "[pron] 's been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If I 'm crying because someone 's been nasty to me , he 'll want to rush away and knock their block off ’ , said one woman , ‘ for anything else he 'll just sit there and look miserable and uncomfortable until I feel I 'm supposed to comfort him ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Someone 's been hard at work , I see . ’ |
| 3 | Now she wants to sell it , but the buyer must allow them to play on and as yet nobody 's been prepared to . |
| 4 | Q Our daughter is nearly three and she 's been dry at night for over a year , but recently she 's started to wet the bed at night . |
| 5 | She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all . |
| 6 | I 'm not fussed for myself , but Pauline 's younger and she 's been used to town life , see what I mean ? ’ |
| 7 | She 's been foul to poor Adam . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 9 | on their own back , she did n't ask for it and June ai n't worked since Christmas , so er , I says I know what it 's like with my sister and I mean she 's been right in it ai n't she ? |
| 10 | No but she 's been critical of lots of other people . |
| 11 | Now of course she 's had a tremendous effect on , on fashion knitwear ever since she 's been involved with before . |
| 12 | Dave and I er were grabbed by the throat by em a woman and her husband from Worksop called and woman called Barbara , and she 's been involved with er a fella called Superintendent er in West Yorkshire . |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , she 's been that in her time too . ’ |
| 14 | She moistened her lips and said pleadingly , ‘ She 's been good to poor Dilys . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Oh , she 's been good to you , I 'm not denying that , but she ca n't stand the sight of me — never could . |
| 16 | She 's been good to me . ’ |
| 17 | And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone . |
| 18 | And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen . |
| 19 | ‘ In the past , ’ he said as he returned to Robbie 's side , ‘ she 's been accustomed to sleeping at the foot of my bed . |
| 20 | He feels his mother should be able to stay in the house she 's been happy in . ’ |
| 21 | That Madam , Gary used to say , she 's been forty for as long as we 've known her . |
| 22 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 23 | She says she 's been open with us , she is selling them to raise funds . |
| 24 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |
| 25 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 26 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 27 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |
| 28 | Just one person witnessed the three running form the shop … she 's been able to given a briefg description of them to Police . |
| 29 | But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications . |
| 30 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |