Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 's [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 2 | Or are you simply afraid to show openly what you can do where he 's been before you ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She thinks she 's a radical 'cause she 's been to West Belfast once and scribbled Bernadette Devlin 's name in pencil on the Falls Wall ! ’ |
| 4 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 5 | I mean obviously once she 's been through the learning process herself , so Doug came away feeling quite pleased that he 'd made that contact and he also sort of made one or two , he , he had one or two wise observations I think about the evening , he made one or two new contacts himself and the suggestion and things , he spoke very well about it , at our committee on our last meeting last week |
| 6 | I mean the new areas of course for us er and I still count the medical practices as a new area although it 's been for four years |
| 7 | I 've only noticed it five years , it looks filthy , although it 's been in the car wash . |
| 8 | Greg Downs says the club is in a better position than it 's been for eight or nine years and if they can play as well as last year they 've got a good chance |
| 9 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 10 | If she 's been under stress . |
| 11 | Did , do you know , do you know if she 's been with someone ? |
| 12 | She has to ask if she 's been to ? |
| 13 | For a man who sounds like he 's been to hell and back and been burned along the way , Mould has returned to heal old wounds . |
| 14 | It looks like it 's been on the M twenty five on a Friday night , and every tyre 's been over it . |
| 15 | Look — ’ he held aloft his battered , ink-bespattered copy — ‘ this one looks as if it 's been in use since the Boer War . ’ |
| 16 | I wonder if he 's been to the doctors with it . |
| 17 | " If he 's been in the tidal river , would n't the water be tidal water anyway ? " |
| 18 | If he 's been in the area , they may know something . ’ |
| 19 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 20 | Yes , cos he 's been on the gin and Martini . |
| 21 | I think he is security cos he 's been in a couple of times has n't he ? |
| 22 | I mean if he charges two and a half I would n't be disappointed cos it 's been in his garage , he 's pushed everything along and he 's always so |
| 23 | because you cos it 's been by your face like , the back 's still wet . |
| 24 | I mean because she 's been on the |
| 25 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 26 | Oh , Charlie , you 've done it now , because she 's been after you for years . |
| 27 | ‘ Coppell 's regarded as intelligent because he 's been to university , ’ the Irishman said . |
| 28 | I FEEL sorry for him because he 's been through so much — hammered in every way . |
| 29 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 30 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |