Example sentences of "[pers pn] '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 | Well erm I think so , I mean they had a great side under Bill Beaumont 's leadership and it 's been promising for a couple of years with England , and today they actually came through with the goods erm a bit of an anti-climax last year at erm at Murrayfield . |
| 19 | It 's been devastating for those who 've cared for Sefton . |
| 20 | Th it 's been pinpointed for us that all these lovely tea , coffee , and chocolate which we all adore , is , is one of the things which is causing the greatest distress and unfairness in the world . |
| 21 | It 's been arranged for a very long time . ’ |
| 22 | It 's been condemned for years now . |
| 23 | And I think kids should be encouraged to erm think about themselves rather than just tick boxes and I think er , er er a group of sentences down here written by the form teacher , by the subject teacher and the pupil erm , as it 's been done for about , for a few years , a good habit to get the kids into , erm especially as a record of achievement should start from year seven . |
| 24 | ‘ It seems that the establishment thinking is that if it 's been done for 175 years , it must be all right . |
| 25 | It 's been done for Venus and for Mercury about twenty years ago . |
| 26 | " It 's been raining for a week . " |
| 27 | Ottawa , Canada-based 4GL software supplier Cognos Inc is about to consummate the moves into Unix and distributed computing it 's been flagging for a year , with the planned Six By Six launch of six products on six Unix platforms in August . |
| 28 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 29 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 30 | It 's been engaged for ten minutes at least . |