Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been a grand help ! ’ |
| 2 | I can talk to her in a way I could n't before and she 's been a great help over the past year . |
| 3 | She has designed the most wonderful costumes for me and she 's been a good friend . |
| 4 | She 's been a good friend to me . ’ |
| 5 | And I saw your mother and I was going on saying all your virtues and how she 's been a good girl , how does that , how er , how erm self discipline she was and all this is on the tape |
| 6 | I was laughing about with er what 's , I 'm gon na write er a note to my chi er letter to my children for , you know , before very long no good thinking about it , well you would n't think about it after when it 's too late , but my kids have been a you know a great comfort the four from my first Joan , Joan has too , she 's been a dear but we had the same problems when she was getting older . |
| 7 | ‘ She 's been a silly woman and now she 's regretting it , ’ he said . |
| 8 | No , she has n't age , because she thinks she 's she 's been a big girl , and she 's now a little girl . |
| 9 | She has a dental appointment this afternoon and she 's been a little bit nervous about it . |
| 10 | She feels — I think she feels — she 's been a bright young woman long enough . |
| 11 | and , and Valerie and now they 've bought the daughter a car , she 's been a naughty girl really , they 've given her everything have n't they ? |
| 12 | Nigel Green , chairman of the Grand Regatta Columbus Committee said : ‘ It 's been a superb display which has lived up to every expectation . |
| 13 | Despite the accusations of ball-tampering , it 's been a superb tour . |
| 14 | It 's been a surprising day . |
| 15 | It 's been a sad day for many of the base personnel . |
| 16 | He says it 's been a sad day , but its also a homecoming . |
| 17 | She says it 's been a lifelong ambition to work with horses . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's been a lifelong ambition of mine to beat him but at the big jump before Ballyboley Corner , Joey whizzed past me and although I tried to catch him again and take a tight line at Ballyboley he had just too much experience and he held on to beat me . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ It 's been a fabulous two years for me at Leeds and the lack of goals has been my only disappointment . |
| 20 | It 's been a rocky start to a short life … but Sami 's owners hope with a little helping hand it could have a much happier ending . |
| 21 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |
| 22 | ‘ Aye , it 's been a good summer . |
| 23 | They seem to want to get a snap of me rather than you at the moment , ’ and she said , ‘ Oh , I 've had my innings and it 's been a good innings . ’ |
| 24 | It 's been a good four years for me to lay low , because they 've changed the stuff so many times and they now seem to be getting down to some conclusions about MIDI and stuff . |
| 25 | He 's scored four in just five starts , and said : ‘ It 's been a good start but I still do n't think I 've been at my best . ’ |
| 26 | It 's been a good season for Barnes and another Twickenham occasion is just the stage for him to show the selectors how good he can be . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's been a good year , ’ he nodded . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's been a good game , Mr Tunney , but it 's over now . |
| 29 | Och it 's been a good job to me . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's been a good one . ’ |