Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] 's been [verb] for " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 4 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 7 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 8 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 11 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 12 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 13 | But why , when she 's been playing for so long , has millions in the bank and leads a very active life outside the tour , does she still have the desire to compete ? |
| 14 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 15 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 16 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 17 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 18 | 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 . |