Example sentences of "[pron] 's be [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she 's been away a long time for one of our ships — ever since June . |
| 2 | She 's been here a long time , of course , from Father Collins 's days . |
| 3 | She 's been here a long time , about ten years . |
| 4 | She 's been here a long time , on and off , she knows the place well . |
| 5 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 6 | And er certainly in teaching there 's been quite a big change over the last ten years in the way that people perceive retirement . |
| 7 | Just a few years ago , it was raised from 4p , so there 's been quite a big increase already . |
| 8 | Not , not a lot at the moment , I do n't think , erm , the end of July erm there was eight hundred and something , but there 's been quite a few bills that have come out of it although that does n't include the two receipts that Maisie has just given me which is about a hundred and eighty , so that 's nearly another two hundred in , but we 're alright , we 're . |
| 9 | Previously it 's been just a blank sheet of printing paper shut up in a lightproof envelope ; now it has a function , an image , a certainty . |
| 10 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |
| 11 | Well it 's been there a long time . |
| 12 | it 's been quite a nice day really |
| 13 | Oh yes very much so and we 've been these er lots secretaries and presidents and all miners and that they 've been coming up you know and er you had a chat with them and they put us do n't let this happen , do n't let that happen , and make sure that erm you know people do n't suffer and er oh it 's been quite a vast experience for us yeah . |
| 14 | I think er in an effort to accommodate Mr Chairman , the members here this evening , it 's been quite a long day , the the Conservative amendment is very close to the amendment that both er myself and Mr have put in and yes we would be willing to accept that , I think we 've got the point across which the only thing missing from the Conservative amendment is the thing about the airport money . |
| 15 | ‘ He 's been here a few times . ’ |
| 16 | Well he 's been there a long while . |
| 17 | when he 's been there a little while perhaps he can come with all the authority of a Euro MP and tell us the answer to his own question er , the honourable member for Ashfield er referred back to the positioning of the European parliament er where it should meet , there are three sites . |