Example sentences of "'s been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My jaw 's been broken in two places . |
| 2 | She 's been hiding behind that chair and |
| 3 | Try telling that to Niall — a practised afternoon riser back home — at breakfast after he 's been assaulted by crack-of-dawn alarm calls . |
| 4 | An eighteen year old 's been convicted of violent disorder after his victim identified him in the street . |
| 5 | You know , she 's been invited to that wedding in Africa ? |
| 6 | Seven hundred quid , that 's why Paul 's been invited to this meeting . |
| 7 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 8 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 9 | I 'm sure it 's been operated in some places but your policy and resources committee do recommend that we do not go down that road . |
| 10 | The other option would be expanding the villages themselves , and we find that that would be equally harmful , so we 'd be opposed to any significant additional development in our district over and above that that 's that 's been assumed in that table . |
| 11 | After the release of stills from The Delinquents movie , she 's been likened to sex-icon Marilyn Monroe and it is a comparison that Kylie does n't wish to deny . |
| 12 | The school 's been lobbying for new buildings for several years . |
| 13 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 14 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 15 | his leg , so erm , he 's been moved to Royal hospital , I went to see him yesterday and he did n't stop talking about you , bless him |
| 16 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 17 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 18 | He 's been seen with glamorous celebrities like Princess Stephanie and East German ice-skater Katarina Witt , but Boris Becker always seems happiest with ex-waitress Karen Schulz . |
| 19 | Unfortunately very little , er we know he 's been in prison since nineteen eighty seven and that he 's been sentenced to ten years , but we have n't been able to determine er under what charge , what happened at his trial , whether he was given defence , er access to a lawyer , those kind of things , and er Amnesty believes that he 's been er imprisoned for his beliefs . |
| 20 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 21 | It seems she 's been appointed without any advertising which would seem to flow equal opportunities promises here , the government and the health service really believe in it ! |
| 22 | It 's it 's actually a very simple statement that 's been made in that sentence . |
| 23 | It probably was I think it 's actually it 's been made from cubic hair er pubic hair sorry . |
| 24 | He 'll never let you get away with anything in a ward even if he 's been pining with unrequited love for your aunt for God knows how many years . ’ |
| 25 | Two or three people have been having problems with the listserv software here this week , and it 's been to do with personal mail addresses , as shown in the From : field of the header of every message each of us sends . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's been turned into worse things than that , I can tell you . |
| 27 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 28 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 29 | Somebody 's car 's been done in last night anyway . |
| 30 | It 's been made even more humiliating by the circumstances in which it 's been done like public rape . |