Example sentences of "[pron] 's [been] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim .
2 And also , back in their team is erm Michael Lee who 's been banned for some years now , and he 's raring to go and erm I think they 're all coming down to prove a few points .
3 ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right .
4 It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least .
5 There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now .
6 Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ?
7 ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself .
8 It 's been known for some time that dioxins are created when chlorine is used to make paper white , but in many situations it 's been difficult to find substitutes .
9 No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime .
10 Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire .
11 What 's been accepted for 2,000 years should not be changed now . ’
12 Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really
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