Example sentences of "it 's " in BNC.

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1 It 's been the cradle and help of many actors , directors and playwrights .
2 It 's got so bad that I do n't even know what to say . ’
3 ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’
4 It 's been the other way around with us .
5 I want to work again — to keep up my self-respect more than anything else — but it 's been finding somewhere to live .
6 It 's been hopeless .
7 It 's only just been finished but the plan is to have four people living there — three clients or whatever and one person sponsored by us , probably a member of staff .
8 Jenny gave me a house-warming present of a radio so I 've been able to listen to music while I write — and it 's been such fun !
9 Jay said : ‘ I do n't know what I 'm doing , it 's never been this way before , ca n't go on anything else , but this time I 'm not going to fuck up . ’
10 But it 's been months , dear !
11 Forget the last six months , admit it 's been more like a year , remove yourself from the desperate turns on the rack of rejection … at least you know how to love .
12 But it 's been going on for two years . ’
13 ‘ Of course , it 's taken me years to get where I am .
14 It 's just made . ’
15 Then it 's gone into the dark , into the wood further .
16 It 's been a hard struggle but we 're getting through , ’ he said .
17 I mention all this because it 's been in my mind a lot recently .
18 The introduction of acupuncture apparently restores this balance when it 's been lost .
19 It 's been proved elsewhere that they work .
20 I 've already experienced a full life and now it 's been taken away . ’
21 Hard left pamphlet ‘ You all sound so unhappy ; it 's been the best week of my life . ’
22 It 's been a hard start and results have not been right .
23 It 's been invaded . ’
24 ‘ And I never run a horse unless I think it 's got a real chance . ’
25 But it 's been done because people wanted it to happen , not because it 's been imposed upon them . ’
26 But it 's been done because people wanted it to happen , not because it 's been imposed upon them . ’
27 It 's all gone downhill .
28 But if it 's taken him 28 years to rediscover the show , the character 's never left him : ‘ All that Cockney toughness is just a cover for the inability to love , ’ he says of Littlechap , but it could as easily apply to him ( 'I 'm desperately childish .
29 And once it 's gone it 's gone . ’
30 And once it 's gone it 's gone . ’
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