Example sentences of "'s be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been the cradle and help of many actors , directors and playwrights . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm afraid there 's been a bit of bother , Mrs Mitchell , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's been pressuring me to sell the land next to this house , ’ David said . |
| 4 | ‘ There 's been nights of passionate love in this house that have left the lovers more depressed than ecstatic , ’ said Thomas , who found the neurotic sex-lives of some of his betters incomprehensible . |
| 5 | She 's been here before . |
| 6 | ‘ And saying , ’ said Wendy , ‘ that he 's been held up at a confinement when he 's forgotten all about somebody . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , it 's been around the common room for some time now . ’ |
| 8 | That 's what 's been going around the common room and that 's what all this adds up to . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Is there something about my work that 's been bothering you , Headmaster ? ’ |
| 10 | This time it was just a computer error they thought — apparently a fairly common occurrence when there 's been some form of disruption to a claim . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been the other way around with us . |
| 12 | What 's been happening ? |
| 13 | ‘ Oh , she 's been here since the beginning of the year — she came over to start a new life after she 'd had problems back home . |
| 14 | I want to work again — to keep up my self-respect more than anything else — but it 's been finding somewhere to live . |
| 15 | It 's been hopeless . |
| 16 | ‘ Funnily enough , that 's been one of the nice things about Harwich : people have n't overburdened everything with all my troubles and they 've just been themselves . |
| 17 | Come and sit down and tell me what 's been happening . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | But it 's been months , dear ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There 's been a complaint . ’ |
| 22 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 23 | And he 's another one who 's been admiring you from afar . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 25 | The question is , for the last three years , who 's been helping to look after Mummy ? |
| 26 | St. Jennifer , Big Sister , Robin Hood of the workers — Who 's been looking after Mummy , d' you imagine ? ’ |
| 27 | I think she has a genuine feeling for the fans and for all that 's been written about her . |
| 28 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |
| 29 | It 's been a hard struggle but we 're getting through , ’ he said . |
| 30 | There are 80 organic wines on his list ( ‘ no chemicals so less chance of a hangover ’ ) and he 's been to loads of vineyards to make sure production is as natural as possible without actually treading the grapes . |