Example sentences of "'s [been] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been hiding under a under an agreement . |
| 2 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 3 | I would n't think it 's been played in a cinema for years . |
| 4 | I 've talked to other people whose mothers came to naturopathy in the fifties , and it 's been explained as a way of eating posh for those who do n't know about Continental food . |
| 5 | It 's been toyed with a few times but as far I 'm aware , this is probably the first serious attempt — certainly at the sort of scale we 're talking of — to use a perched beach to provide coastal protection . |
| 6 | I 'm not a frog that 's been kissed by a princess or whatever the fairy tale is . |
| 7 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
| 8 | It 's been caused by a delay in the operation to move a bridge crossing the M4 near the Severn estuary . |
| 9 | she 's been living with a brother . |
| 10 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 11 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 12 | The old hut 's been converted into a flower-shop , but the cabbies say they wanted to keep it for themselves . |
| 13 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 14 | It 's been hit by a dose of fly spray ! |
| 15 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 16 | It 's the tenth time already this year Thames Valley Police have dealt with an offence where a member of the public 's been threatened with a gun . |
| 17 | A parliamentary candidate has branded a football club as sexist because she 's been barred from a men-only dinner . |
| 18 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 19 | After all , he 's been pictured with a host of celebrities , including Rod Stewart and now Shirley Bassey . |
| 20 | He 's been appointed to a splendid living in one of the Kensington parishes . |
| 21 | He 's been speaking at a debate on the issue in Strasbourg . |
| 22 | So we can now advise people that if they take a bird in that 's been injured by a cat , they give it a shot of antibiotics — great , cures the septicaemia . |
| 23 | The door 's been locked with a command level override . ’ |
| 24 | Later on we took them to Woody Swinbank 's at Mickleton , but that 's been turned into a pub now , appropriately called the Blacksmith 's Arms . |
| 25 | And as for the delay in writing , do n't you have any idea how time-consuming it is , looking after someone who 's been paralysed by a stroke ? ’ |
| 26 | ‘ The kennels failed health and safety standards , so they 're half finished — nothing 's been done for a year . |
| 27 | Again , explain what 's been said to a close friend and keep reminding yourself that in God 's eyes you are a successful , important and useful person . |
| 28 | A man 's been charged after a fight at a pub between rival groups of football fans . |
| 29 | Their head has been in t touch with the bed , their heels , but the whole body 's been arched like a bow with the contraction of these muscles . |
| 30 | erm My cause for concern , and I think it 's one that 's been echoed in a number of places , is the still very high figure for food-poisoning outbreaks , for food-poisoning cases , erm you 'll see we 're not as high as the previous comparable half-year of last year , which was ninety-two , but that included the Keble outbreak , which you 're well aware of , but at thirty-two for Oxford for a half year , that 's a very high figure . |