Example sentences of "'s been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody 's gon na tell if she 's been here since five . |
| 2 | It 's been here since 1925 , but in September it 'll close . |
| 3 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 5 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |
| 6 | Although it 's been around since 1985 you could hardly describe it as one of the top-selling DOS word processors . |
| 7 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |
| 8 | She 's been up since six and he is up |
| 9 | ‘ I daresay she 's been up since three , being horsey . ’ ) |
| 10 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
| 11 | Someone 's been right through that wall there , look . |
| 12 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 13 | Because the machine 's been down since last Thursday . |
| 14 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 16 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 17 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 18 | I bet nobody 's been there at all . |
| 19 | ‘ Ought n't you to be fetching Lisa — she 's been there since 3 and if they 're having a party tonight they 'd probably like to get her off their hands . ’ |
| 20 | The mill has been I do n't ken how long there 's been a mill on the site there but the mill as it stands at present 's been there from eighteen sixty . |
| 21 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 22 | I think with regard to er I mean the , the general rule of things with regard to educational er issues and time off for them , erm they tend to be let's say reasonable er about it er but that 's been literally on educational issues . |
| 23 | Syd 's been out of top class cricket for nearly two years . |
| 24 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
| 25 | He 's been out for some time . |
| 26 | She 's been out with enough lads to know he 's the right one for her , ’ Maureen said . |
| 27 | Bernie 's been out at ten o'clock at night before with him . |
| 28 | " It 's been more like six " |
| 29 | It seems as if there 's been more in recent months . |
| 30 | The strain he 's been under with one thing and another . |