Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 's been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 2 | Well where it 's been hacked about |
| 3 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 4 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 5 | One is to get somebody to call your number , and check it rings at the number you 've diverted to , and the other is to call the switchboard and ask them , because on the switchboard , when they dial your number , up will come the number that it 's been diverted to . |
| 6 | Celebrations at the Whitminster Animal Shelter , after news that it 's been saved from closure . |
| 7 | Welcome back:A new clinic … the first of it 's kind in Britain … is cutting hospital waiting lists so fast that it 's been described as a runaway success . |
| 8 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 9 | for what you 're doing or you might even find that it 's been left in reverse and you go all the way from here to Glasgow in reverse . |
| 10 | You know , you got ta forget that you , you must remember them , that , that it 's been passed by the minister . |
| 11 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 12 | You 're quite right that it 's been dealt with in an extraordinary number of soaps because , in Brookside , Tracey Corkhill has had an abortion and the story 's been tied in with fatherhood — with Barry , her lover , losing out on fatherhood . |
| 13 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 14 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |
| 15 | He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated . |
| 16 | The judge then , bearing in mind , all that he knows , and all that he 's been told about the guilty person , proceeds to pass sentence . |
| 17 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 18 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |
| 19 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 20 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 21 | Once it 's been put into containers , they need never touch it again . |
| 22 | Helen 's tearful mother Anne Stephens said today : ‘ Whether you believe it or anyone else believes it my daughter is innocent and she 's been sent to prison for a week for something she has n't done . ’ |
| 23 | These guys are nudging each other , they go up to her , the music changes , and they 're talking to her , and she says no or whatever , and then the last guy walks up to her , the woman turns round , and she 's been replaced by someone wearing the same dress but she 's really fat . |
| 24 | ‘ Since her arrest , they 've trumped up charges against her , and she 's been deported to Beirut . ’ |
| 25 | And she 's been sitting with me down in my studio while I work . |
| 26 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not too keen on Katie Jane , though , she looks like she 's been pulled through a hedge backwards , and all this drinking out of a baby 's bottle , it sounds like she 's using it as a gimmick . |
| 28 | The Arguments continue along much the same agile lines with singer Juliette bounding around as if she 's been plugged into the national grid . |
| 29 | The Arguments continue along much the same agile lines with singer Juliette bounding around as if she 's been plugged into the national grid . |
| 30 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |