Example sentences of "'s be [verb] to " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Annie 's been chatting to him quite a lot , lately . |
2 | Kevin Kline 's been chatting to John Miller about working with a great actor — himself ! |
3 | But this year , he 's been invited to Cheltenham as a special guest of the trophy makers . |
4 | Seven hundred quid , that 's why Paul 's been invited to this meeting . |
5 | You know , she 's been invited to that wedding in Africa ? |
6 | er up , one who 's been invited to one 's birthday party |
7 | Mo , one who 's been invited to one 's |
8 | " She 'll part with one of those diamonds she 's been clinging to . " |
9 | Roger 's been complaining to me |
10 | now they can only push you , they can use a certain amount of their own imagination , right , but they can not really push your information unless it 's been fed to them , so somebody 's , somebody 's got it , do you follow me ? |
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 | She 's been writing to the Health Minister , her local MP and Norma Major every day for 2 weeks and plans to continue . |
13 | A woman who 's been writing to a convicted killer facing the gas chamber in America is to visit him on Death Row . |
14 | ‘ What 's been getting to you ? ’ |
15 | Is it because you 've taken a stand since Mother 's been taking to her bed ? ’ |
16 | 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 |
17 | she does n't like where she 's been moved to because of her ill health . |
18 | He 's been sentenced to seven years in prison . |
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 appointed to a splendid living in one of the Kensington parishes . |
21 | ‘ He 's been appointed to Uxbridge 's staff , sir . ’ |
22 | He 's been appointed to , as it were , look after this section . |
23 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
24 | A man 's been airlifted to hospital tonight after a crash involving two lorries a trailer and several cars . |
25 | A man 's been airlifted to hospital after a crash involving two lorries a trailer and several cars . |
26 | No a f a fossil is something that 's been turned to stone in the ground . |
27 | That 's a cruel thing to say , but it 's been done to me often enough in the past : you find yourself saying ordinary things and the person next to you is suddenly being witty . |
28 | ‘ It 's not what she 's done , it 's what 's been done to her . ’ |
29 | He says no word of what 's been done to him , he shows no mark , but the thing is there , and I can not account for it . ’ |
30 | ‘ The only thing you 've got is what 's been given to you . ’ |