Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] 's been " in BNC.

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1 Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days .
2 ‘ If I look at my last two years in football it 's been virtually to the last kick of the game in the last two seasons , so it will be the same again .
3 He 's ma , he 's he 's er squitting It 's complete squit He 's been exposed .
4 planning applications , erm the sort of locational aspects are important , the the existing policy in the structure plan did have some sort of control over the the number of jobs , but it 's as as David Potter has said , it 's been very difficult to monitor er the level of jobs being provided , and in practice it 's been really impossible to implement that aspect of of the policy .
5 and in essence it 's been our , our prior aim to keep to that which was agreed by the council back in nineteen eighty six .
6 ‘ Mind you , it 's no wonder she 's been out of sorts after that dreadful business at the tech … and Major Ford tittle-tattling all over the village . ’
7 coach and if it comes out like Helen and Pete like that and they 're , they 're gone and the others have n't , no wonder it 's been up on your wall
8 No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’
9 No wonder he 's been dubbed ‘ the Ben Elton of magic ’ by Radio 1 's Steve Wright while a magazine writer said he ‘ makes Paul Daniels look like Gordon the Gopher ’ .
10 So if your if you 're an elder it 'll be very difficult to get up those very steep steps etcetera so it 's got disadvantages now it 's been run all sorts of ways it 's was run you know it was run as a as a wine wine bar it was run as a restaurant it 's been run as a bar it 's been run as a stage door club but all this all these ways have been run by private individuals it 's not always been the trust that 's run it it 's been run as franchise all these people have great problems actually making profit out of it and making it suitable .
11 A second rapper causes batted eyelids for a time , and the addition of a second guitar during an encore of ‘ Go Wild ’ suddenly give the sound the extra bite it 's been missing all night , but if 25th Of May are going to appeal on musical merit as a vehicle for their politics , they 'll have to update their sound , experiment and hit harder than this .
12 But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him .
13 well dad 'll probably ha , he usually has a lot to say when he comes home from work he 's been home and rushed out so I
14 As it is , the only problems that clearly disturb him — as opposed to confuse him — are the nightmares and habitual sleepwalking he 's been tormented by since childhood , long before the recreational drug use kicked in .
15 His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for .
16 Er I 've always er , I do n't think I e I b th whenever I 've been unhappy with work it 's been work that I 've allowed myself to do for ulterior motives , for money or whatever I m The things I 've done er even th the things that have been unsuccessful th if I 've wanted to do them , I 've been able to live with that .
17 I say he 's had half a dozen kids to each girl he 's been
18 I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding .
19 Oh , there 's kind she 's been !
20 ‘ Since she started at the poly she 's been very difficult , ’ said Mrs Khalid .
21 She 's at least eighty years old , of course she 's been restored .
22 ‘ I could n't think of anyone nicer to have the new job she 's been given .
23 But the usaf says with the end of the cold war it 's been decided to pull out all staff .
24 He says the basic idea is if you understand what 's going wrong then you can design any therapy sensibly not on the hit and miss basis it 's been done in the past .
25 But I tell you what , ’ he said confidentially , ‘ I reckon I know one place he 's been since then .
26 ‘ It 's a shame it 's been ruined . ’
27 If it 's anything like the majority of the population it 's been a bit hairy .
28 All right darling it 's been lovely .
29 And it come , at the end of the day it comes out with all the ones it 's matched , the duration it 's been there and er makes it a damned sight easier basically .
30 Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't .
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