Example sentences of "[pron] 's be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been speaking for the first time on camera following her release from prison , exclusively to Central News . |
| 2 | There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger . |
| 3 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 4 | She says that she 's been flying for three years . |
| 5 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been calling for you , ’ Sister Duggan told him . |
| 7 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 8 | Since she left school she 's been working for the Fish Co-operative in Stockholm Backs , not far from Riddle 's yard . ’ |
| 9 | " Did n't Jenny tell you she 's been working for me ? " |
| 10 | Today Cynthia Coles got the news she 's been waiting for . |
| 11 | She 's been admitted for a D and C. ’ |
| 12 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 13 | Now that she 's been nominated for an Oscar , it would be natural for there to be competition between them . |
| 14 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 15 | She 's been asking for you , she feels terribly guilty about the baby . ’ |
| 16 | But why , when she 's been playing for so long , has millions in the bank and leads a very active life outside the tour , does she still have the desire to compete ? |
| 17 | She 's been missing for a week , was going to marry a rising Minister , successful career , everything coming up roses . |
| 18 | ‘ There is a man next door who 's been looking for a job at least five years . |
| 19 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 20 | No , it was the last you know the dramatic end that everybody who 's been waiting for watching that film from seven o'clock till |
| 21 | No such luck I 'm afraid for a car swindler who 's been gaoled for two years after he was caught boarding the same holiday flight as his victim . |
| 22 | A farmer who 's been fighting for years to KEEP gypsies on his land has been given the go-ahead after a public inquiry . |
| 23 | And also , back in their team is erm Michael Lee who 's been banned for some years now , and he 's raring to go and erm I think they 're all coming down to prove a few points . |
| 24 | Police in Lothian are increasingly concerned about the safety of a fifteen year old girl who 's been missing for ten days . |
| 25 | Police are growing increasingly worried about a mentally handicapped man who 's been missing for three days . |
| 26 | And of course I do n't know how long do n't know how long that one 's been going for , but obviously that 's another sort of problem in some way . |
| 27 | Yeah , that 's a very old make you know , that one 's been going for donkey years , but it 's those colours , I mean there 's at least , well with the o |
| 28 | Now something 's been said for certainly fifteen years er that I can remember . |
| 29 | There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be . |
| 30 | The effect of these new measures will be to allow a substantial acceleration and simplification , which everybody 's been calling for , of decision making in asylum and immigration cases . |