Example sentences of "'s [been] [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 2 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 3 | They have n't noticed the so-called economic boom Chile 's been enjoying for the last twenty years . |
| 4 | Your flat 's been bugged for the past two months . ’ |
| 5 | Listen , Bill — the boy 's been training for a few weeks , and it 's time he did some work . |
| 6 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 7 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 10 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 11 | ‘ The kennels failed health and safety standards , so they 're half finished — nothing 's been done for a year . |
| 12 | Real Men with John Ritter its , its really wacky , like he 's this fucking secret agent stuff , I never smoke unless its after six and he just , he 's this John Ritter and his got this really mild of character but he 's been mistaken for an , an agent and he 's , he 's , he 's going |
| 13 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 14 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 15 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A Glasgow man 's been jailed for a total of four and a half years for blackmailing gay businessmen . |
| 19 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 20 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 21 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's been running for a bookie again , Sarah . |
| 23 | Can I just draw people 's attention to the very last point which was made in case any one sending large sums of cash through the post office , erm , it , it 's been running for a long time |
| 24 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 25 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 26 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 27 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta . |
| 30 | It 's not just that Mr Parnham knows the count , it 's an idea the old boy 's been floating for a while , so he tells me . |