Example sentences of "[pron] 's [be] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er |
| 2 | She 's got a bruise on her arm like she 's been ten rounds with Dempsey … and it 's all your fault . ’ |
| 3 | Yes there 's been many cases where lesbian and gay couples have left a gay bar , have given each other a goodnight kiss at a bus stop or at a tube station or in the street and they 've been arrested under public decency laws and dragged through the courts and fined up to £200 . |
| 4 | But a great deal of research and money needs to be invested when a new product and a completely new chemical comes on the market , and there 's been many examples in the past of things being released . |
| 5 | Since then there 's been such winners as ‘ B-A-B-Y ’ ( Carla Thomas , 1966 and Rachel Sweet , 1978 ) , ‘ Baby , Baby ’ ( Eighth Wonder , 1988 ) and ‘ Baby ’ ( Halo James , 1990 ) , the Mechanical Copyright people announcing a year ago that their database , at that point , contained 81 songs called ‘ Baby , Baby ’ , 22 titled ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ and even one called ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ! |
| 6 | there 's been eight miners trapped down in Yorkshire but the election |
| 7 | There 's been all sorts of problems with regard to paying cleaner 's wages , because I become her employer , |
| 8 | There would have been no action and there 'd have been a nice plan on the table and I sincerely believe that but for general management we would have lost the opportunity to ( a ) have got the money , and ( b ) got the clinic built before people could actually realise what was happening and there 's been other instances of that . |
| 9 | There 's been two weeks with overtime . |
| 10 | Yeah but you see by going to the same supplier , we 've got a lot of the film we can use that er there 's been several days filming |
| 11 | There 's been another jobs blow in Nottinghamshire with the news that Staythorpe Power Station is to close with the loss of 124 posts . |
| 12 | Now we have n't , erm talking about er cars as to other forms of transport and on the whole there 's been more complaints about the public transport than they have about cars , but you surely do n't think or maybe you do , I mean what 's bad about cars ? , |
| 13 | In Tambopata Reserve , an area of ten hectares , in the last ten years , there 's been more birds spotted than in Great Britain since they began keeping records in 1750 . |
| 14 | Ring Philip and B T , not that there 's been any problems . |
| 15 | It 's been 10 years now since I left the farm , and I 'm happy that I 've ‘ escaped ’ to London . |
| 16 | It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls . |
| 17 | Then someone turns around and says , ‘ It 's been five years since your last tour , ’ and you say , ‘ What ? ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling . |
| 19 | It 's been five weeks since Seventy year old Jim Eggleton was found dead at his home in Russell 's Water . |
| 20 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 21 | Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield . |
| 22 | ‘ And it 's been six hours of torment for me . |
| 23 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 24 | It 's been six years now since we first looked at Faliraki as a club resort . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been six years , Paul . |
| 26 | It 's been nineteen months since fog and the M4 combined to create an inferno of blazing cars and lorries . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been eight days now . ’ |
| 28 | It 's been two months since Jim was seen here at his home alive on Boxing Day . |
| 29 | It 's been two years in the studio but in that time we 've probably only spent four months recording . ’ |
| 30 | He said : ‘ For a lot of this season , it 's been two steps forward and one step back . |