Example sentences of "'s be [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had to do it see , dad 's been complaining about me being lazy . ’ |
| 2 | the thing , I mean everybody 's been complaining about that but considering all that he has n't done bad has he ? |
| 3 | He says he 's been asked about it , but he ca n't help , and anyone who uses it is banned . |
| 4 | I think she has a genuine feeling for the fans and for all that 's been written about her . |
| 5 | Now a play 's been written about the darker days of his life in Worcestershire . |
| 6 | He 's been bouncing about the office all day like a rubber ball . ’ |
| 7 | So at last something 's been done about it , and the new renovations and extensions , being officially opened as I write , will be there to delight you all next season . |
| 8 | Um I 've got some stuff on the handout about some of the stuff that 's been done about what 's what happens and how long it goes on for . |
| 9 | Simple-minded people sometimes think that everything 's been said about Hollywood . |
| 10 | It 's interesting that despite all that 's been said about migration and I 'll come back to it , but we actually start , the county and ourselves , from the same point , more or less , within about four four dwelling I think . |
| 11 | Er I what 's been said about the report and I think it identifies the main issues . |
| 12 | Last night one of the signatories , Councillor Ian MacDonald , said : ‘ We have accepted the criticism contained in the report , but Mr Gilbert disagrees with what 's been said about him . |
| 13 | Everything that 's been said about it , I would like to simply say , we owe a great debt of gratitude to our English friends for preserving our heritage of the past . |
| 14 | I thought well that 's fair comment cos there 's people 's houses I 'd stay away from cos I do n't like the wives , so I mean , you know , that 's , I do n't go round , but the thing is she 's been gone about what three year now , four year or something or however long it is why do n't she come now ? |
| 15 | The guy relays how he 's been fantasising about you while with his new girlfriend , so you invite him over to do the wild thing . |
| 16 | But er but er yeah , so but like , she 's been saying to me cos she 's been thinking about whether she is or not she er she 's been like like everywhere there 's babys and prams and everywhe , on the telly and everything , do you know what I mean ? |
| 17 | It 's a challenge that 's been talked about all over world , but who 's going to respond and how ? |
| 18 | ‘ It is completely novel for a high-street retailer to launch an added-value card like this , through it 's been talked about for some time , ’ says Ian Minors , managing director of Moss Bros agency MHA Direct . |
| 19 | Right yeah erm so that can be , that can be a bit awkward but still some of the older stuff can give you a bit of a grounding in , in , in , in , in , in what it 's about if you can find anything relevant and sometimes you 've just got to sort of wander round the library and pick things up off the shelves like at random and see , see if you can find something in the index or find something in the contents pages that sort of vaguely coincides with what the you know what 's been talked about in the class that week erm sometimes if you keep looking you might actually be dead lucky and find one of the recommended books has actually come back in erm you may find that you 've got to be a bit flexible about that because , you know , if a topic 's dealt with in November you may not get a chance to see the book until you know kind of , I do n't know , February or something , you know I mean so it , it sometimes does mean you 've got to do the reading like a bit displaced from the from the classes |
| 20 | I took Tim to the match one Easter Monday they played Luton in league match , and Ted played , the old Ipswich player , and we go absolutely , it rained , hailed , blew , and we got home soaked to the skin you know , and er it seems to make you feel better if they win you know , but if you sort of put up with those sort of things and they , they lose it 's makes you feel right down in the dumps , but when they get promoted like they did last time it 's remarkable , it 's been remarked about this aspect , that people in local industry seem to work harder , and it seems to be a boost in general local traders make shop window displays and it seems to be a boost to the town in general and give a lift to the town if you like |
| 21 | We we got lots of evidence to suggest that actually the amount of noise problem outside weekends is actually and we do n't actually have the staff to actually deal with this problem without considerably more expenditure than anybody in this council is actually talking about and our tendency towards this erm again this is a bid of of what 's it sounds good and as as to the public conveniences this has been liaised it 's been negotiated about , it 's been looked at very , very expansively indeed . |
| 22 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He explained : ‘ He 's been talking about Peter Pan since he was three years old . |
| 25 | The place everyone 's been talking about lately . |
| 26 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |
| 27 | interest tax relief , it 's M I D A S right , so let's not start talking about the benefit of public sector housing and to show the financial illiteracy of of of what 's actually been proposed if you understand the government regulation about the ring fencing o of of of the housing revenue account and and the way in which housing benefit is now having to be subsidised by those other council house tenants then what 's actually going to happen when your poor people inhabit those houses , those public sector houses and they need the housing benefit that David 's been talking about . |
| 28 | She 's been talking about it for ye the past year . |
| 29 | Well where it 's been hacked about |
| 30 | You know what that ugly Jock 's been saying about Crilly ? ’ |