Example sentences of "[conj] he '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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’ |
| 8 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 11 | there 's a story here in the paper , I do n't know whether you 've read it about a little boy , ten weeks old and he 's been born with all his organs on the wrong side of his body |
| 12 | He 's twenty-five now , Tucker told me , and he 's been living with his mother in Nassau . ’ |
| 13 | And he 's been wrestling with this alsatian |
| 14 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 15 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 16 | Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ? |
| 17 | And he 's been lying like hell , ’ said one source . |
| 18 | So far only Allan Lamb has had the courage to speak out — and he 's been hammered with fines totalling £7,000 , costs of £1,000 and a two-match ban . |
| 19 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 20 | Jesus has been through the agony in the garden he 's been arrested he 's been abandoned by his apostles he 's been through a trial and he has actually been through the crucifixion and he 's been buried in the tomb . |
| 21 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 22 | yes , if he 's been diagnosed as er , as a terminal illness . |
| 23 | They want someone who looks as if he 's been shot at , wounded , and spent the day crawling through minefields to deliver the dispatches . |
| 24 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 25 | Erm , if he 's been going to er , erm , in the unlikely , er , twelve months , that it 's unlikely that he 's going to have more than twelve months to live . |
| 26 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 27 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 28 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 29 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 30 | ‘ It 's as if he 's been wiped off the face of the earth ! ’ |