Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours . |
| 2 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 3 | And it has been that way for five seasons . |
| 4 | Since then it has been many times re-invented and used for 3D picture postcards . |
| 5 | It has been many years since the proud Fruithill Park outfit languished in the bottom half of the division after only three games , which is the case this season . |
| 6 | I think that you have made the magazine more interesting , more satirical and funnier than it has been this century . |
| 7 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 8 | In practice , it has been this area which has been most significant in relation to land development and planning policies . |
| 9 | As was noted above , it has been this neglect of the loan period factor ( and consequent confusion between APR and actual money cost of credit ) which has in practice proved an obstacle to Americans using their growing awareness of APRs to shop more discriminatingly for credit . |
| 10 | It has been some debate er on the board and the management committee about the direction the theatre should be going into the nineteenth century twentieth century and I think and I and I think it 's important that this meeting hopefully will be very constructive in the sense that is important that the theatre actually gets the views of people use the building , and people actually come along and support the of the theatre . |
| 11 | ‘ Do n't suppose it 's been much help . ’ |
| 12 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 13 | It 's been that way ever since I can remember . |
| 14 | For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | It 's been all trouble since you stopped . ’ |
| 17 | It 's been all hands to the deck at this tyre fitters . |
| 18 | It 's been another year of achievement for the society the panto Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves was a great success and gave a great start to the year . |
| 19 | It 's been another day of unwanted exposure for the Duchess of York with yet more holiday snaps emblazoned across the tabloids . |
| 20 | But Nigel took the cloak home with him and it 's been another string to his bow ever since . |
| 21 | Yeah , I was gon na give you a ring to say it 's been this way , pick them up |
| 22 | Now the reason why we 've come together and this has been a recent change and it 's been this year , erm is because there are overlaps without going into deep detail , there are overlaps in our work and we were working together as officer 's anyway , but not as well as we should , so what we decided to do was formally integrate the three teams under the same unit , and we do have regular er internal meetings , management team meetings consisting of John , Pete me and Carol and we so we more co-ordinate the work for all the teams much more systema systematically , that we know what everybody 's doing and that way we believe we can use best use of resources we 've got most effectively . |
| 23 | Yeah but I mean the times I 've seen her it 's been this end of town rather than that end of town . |
| 24 | It 's been some day . ’ |
| 25 | It 's been some time . ’ |
| 26 | He 's been all sweetness and light , promised nothing and done ditto . ’ |