Example sentences of "'s be on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Philip , whoever 's been on the phone ? |
| 2 | You 've seen my cuttings and you 've seen what 's been on the News the last couple of days . |
| 3 | The subtitles are superfluous : it 's been on the telly umpteen times and the gestures say it all . |
| 4 | She 's been on the sauce for years . |
| 5 | ‘ He 's been on your case all this term . |
| 6 | ‘ He 's been on the edge of having an affair more than once . |
| 7 | Aside from that , Meany 's been street skating in the Greater Manchester area , Duffy 's been on the lookout for new terrain and unknown people existent in the South West , and also discovers a totally hot indoor bowl with a secret location and impeccable construction . |
| 8 | It 's been on the television news and it 's all over the papers this morning . |
| 9 | It was Bob Crayshaw who said peevishly : ‘ Trade 's been on the downward path since the war with America . |
| 10 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 11 | I was n't at all kind , and that 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 12 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 13 | We 're just saying what 's been on our minds for a long time . ’ |
| 14 | This is something that 's been on my mind for a very long time and I mean , I , I , I think it 's about time we started getting rid of these things and updating our own toilets you know . |
| 15 | I think that 's been on , on the cards for a long time has n't it ? |
| 16 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 17 | as a form tutor , somebody 's been on a a a residential weekend |
| 18 | And it 's been on my conscience ever since . ’ |
| 19 | It 's been on Wish You Were Here . |
| 20 | John 's been on jobs and he 's er |
| 21 | He he 's been on everything here . |
| 22 | " He 's been on three legs for a couple o' days . |
| 23 | Because if somebody 's been on an employer marketing course , and the feel happy about it , they 're more likely to do mor employer visits in one day . |
| 24 | And it 's been on my heart for a long time to save . |
| 25 | It 's been on the radio for hours . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 27 | It 's been on my mind since Bruges . ’ |
| 28 | The the father would be on the boat , and the son would , as a young boy , would come to meet the workers that came back and he begins to help with the ropes and the winching up of the boat and the washing down , and so on , of the boat after she 's been on service , and so on . |
| 29 | He 's been on the sauce basically but he 's kicked the habit and he says of kicking the drinking habit I 've had a lot of help and a lot of good counselling , in the end it 's up to me . |
| 30 | Lady Thatcher 's been on the road promoting her book and a couple of nights ago she was in Birmingham at a dinner hosted by the Birmingham Post . |