Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Everyone calls 'im Sergeant Joe , 'e 's been in the Army , yer see . ’
2 Apparently she 's been off all week .
3 She 's been off her face quite a lot actually .
4 Ever since she 's been under threat of eviction .
5 But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years .
6 If she 's been under stress .
7 ‘ It took her six years to mention the second child to me , and because of the way she 's been towards me , I 've never had an avenue to find out whether he was my son or not . ’
8 She 's been on the sauce for years .
9 Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train …
10 ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’
11 The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on .
12 Well it 's , it 's more like more or less just like today , you know , if you , if you 've got nowhere to go and they just put you there , but I mean now you ca n't get in very good can you really , not now , but erm , Pat since she 's been on duty she 's had a terrible trial , terrible she had to get one , help in this morning , get one of the floor next door , then we 've had trouble one down further , but she 's been put into erm Ashlyn now for five weeks , so she 's out the way for a little while we 've had an awful worrying time here though , it 's absolutely been a pantomime cos this has just keeps er throwing herself on the floor , all the time she 's doing it
13 Harriet says it 's unusual for chess to make the front pages of the papers , in spite of the fact that she 's been on the front page of The Times .
14 And then she 's been average on the last three or four months she 's been on eight stone .
15 gone with the , the , from the college there , she 's been on an art course and they 're going round er , art galleries and museums and places like that
16 Well my feeling is that you know if yo if you 're car does n't run tinker with the carburettor and if it still is n't running right , tinker with something else , if you like , the fatal thing is to tinker with both because then you just do n't know what you 've got , and erm she 's been on , on this hormone replacement which is er er no big deal but , you know , hormones are
17 Last weekend well for a couple of weeks she 's been on a downer .
18 She 's been on holiday .
19 I mean because she 's been on the
20 eh ? mm she 's been on the phone , they 've rang Blackpool now , gon na get back
21 She 's been with me in Cambridge all day — I told her she could have Sunday off . ’
22 Strictly speaking , you can make beautiful love to your wife for five months and three weeks after finding out that she 's been with someone else , and then turn round and say ‘ I find it intolerable to stay with you ’ .
23 She 's been with them now for just over a month , and Angelica has never known a worker like her .
24 then one day she rang and asked to come over — and we went to collect her and she 's been with us ever since .
25 Now as was saying earlier on , that she 's been with flowers all her life , well I have n't .
26 She 's been with him longer than anyone else on his staff .
27 She 's been with us all for a long time .
28 She 's been with you , has n't she ?
29 Er , she runs the whole of this course , and erm she 's been with the school for years .
30 Did , do you know , do you know if she 's been with someone ?
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