Example sentences of "'s been [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " 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 | do you want a cup of tea that 's been stewing for three days ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
| 7 | Well considering nothing 's been done for fifty year I suppose really |
| 8 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I know this may sound like a long shot — but someone who 's been listening to 2 Pac 's ‘ 2PacalypseNow ’ super-LP was recently arrested in a stolen car ( with the tape still playing ) for killing a police officer in America . |
| 11 | It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least . |
| 12 | ‘ What 's been accepted for 2,000 years should not be changed now . ’ |
| 13 | The Lockerbie enquiry 's been suspended for two days after a solicitor representing families of American victims , died in a car crash . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps it 's been buried for ten years , ’ she whispered to herself . |
| 15 | I , I look at these science things where , you know , they 're sending these things , America 's sending them , it 's been going for two year thousands of miles an hour , you know , probably a minute er and the as the man came over who went to the moon , the top man , to lecture and he was asked innumerable questions and one was do you think there 's anything up there ? |
| 16 | He 's been going for three hours . |
| 17 | The centre 's been running for four years and is still looked after by Andy Middleton who set it up . |
| 18 | So I think you can be assured that it 's not something that 's been put to one side , it 's something that we 're trying to build in to all the work we do , in whatever ways appropriate , but er , I accept that the the implications for your comment , that we 've got to be continually , er watching ourselves , to make sure that we do that . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 21 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 22 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 23 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 24 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 25 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 26 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 27 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 28 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 29 | Could it be that someone took him up on the extravagant wagers he offered constantly during the election and that he 's been forced to three ball his monkey suit to meet his gambling debts ? and then there was the letter in Saturday 's Darlington and Stockton Times from stop-at-home Nick ThorneWallis , Labour chairman of Darlington council 's transport committee . |
| 30 | I mean they , and also a lot of people are shy to once as erm , someone 's put up someone else and it 's been seconded by two people on the committee they feel there 's no point in |