Example sentences of "'s be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ Yes , it 's been tough for all of us . |
| 32 | ‘ I told you , he 's been dead for years , ’ the guard snaps . |
| 33 | He 's been dead for some time . |
| 34 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |
| 35 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 37 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |
| 38 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 39 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |
| 40 | He 's been homeless for more than twenty years . |
| 41 | Otherwise , everything 's been fine for this most casual and flexible of groups . |
| 42 | It 's been women-only for more than a century . |
| 43 | And it 's been used constantly , so it 's not done bad , it 's the way , the leg 's been wiggly for a while , it just broke off the other day , so , I do n't know whether John can mend it , he could n't seem to think he can |
| 44 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |
| 45 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |
| 46 | Yeah , he 's been slack for a while now . |