Example sentences of "'s been [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My jaw 's been broken in two places . |
| 2 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 3 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The school 's been lobbying for new buildings for several years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been turned into worse things than that , I can tell you . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 13 | A fourteen-year-old boy who 's been charged with twenty-seven crimes this year is spending two weeks in Spain at the taxpayers expense . |
| 14 | Ever since Europe 's largest theme park opened eighteen months ago , it 's been cursed by financial problems . |
| 15 | Concern 's been expressed by some parents about the violent nature of the film which is PG rated , allowing children of all ages to see it . |
| 16 | Concern 's been expressed by some parents about the violent nature of the film which is PG rated , allowing children of all ages to see it . |
| 17 | It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least . |
| 18 | ‘ What 's been accepted for 2,000 years should not be changed now . ’ |
| 19 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 21 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 22 | Starring Paul Nicholas , it 's been playing to packed houses for nearly two weeks . |
| 23 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
| 24 | He 's been trapped by giant plants and ca n't get out ! ’ |
| 25 | Like a baby who 's been rolled in warm lotions and talcum powder . |
| 26 | According to what we 've been able to piece together using what may be dated information , it 's been working on four lines of development , all using the company 's proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 27 | Manager Mark Ferguson warns his side to expect another tough battle but says : ‘ You can throw the form book away before this match ; it 's been shown at all levels that the cup has no respect for league positions . |
| 28 | It 's been mentioned by several speakers today . |
| 29 | He 's been spotted in more places than Elvis Presley . ’ |
| 30 | 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 . |