Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all . |
| 2 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |
| 3 | And she 's married , she 's been married for two and half years to Glen . |
| 4 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |
| 5 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 6 | Then Jimmy said well you know she 's been dead for many years and er she says , oh that 's right . |
| 7 | Oh yes , keep it in the family oh dear she was my youngest sister too and she 's been dead for , oh bloody hell , she was eighty six when she died , how long 's that ago , a few years , I 'm the baby of the family and me brother 's the next one , and he 's eight eighty five now , is he ? |
| 8 | But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications . |
| 9 | she 's been bedridden for twenty years now or whatever |
| 10 | Albert said , ‘ She 's been ill for ages . |
| 11 | SHe 's been ready for this so-called ‘ work ’ since about the fourth day . |
| 12 | Mind you , it 's been good for business , so I suppose I should n't complain . ’ |
| 13 | It 's been good for me to sweat and toil — like a long therapy session ; honest manual work puts a lot of things in perspective . |
| 14 | ’ It 's been good for me and if I can show others how to enjoy it , then that 's what will continue to make American Football grow . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Luke , it 's been intolerable for weeks . |
| 16 | It 's been awful for me and my mother , too . |
| 17 | Yes , it 's been available for months now — but I 've been reliably informed that the 3.5-inch drive is going to be re -launched , hopefully with a sizeable catalogue of software titles to accompany it . |
| 18 | But it 's been unused for more than two years and is now derelict . |
| 19 | And the second time round it 's been perfect for him because he bought from Karen 's house the Hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his . |
| 20 | It 's tremendous as it 's been dry for 10 years . |
| 21 | Well it 's been dry for another day . |
| 22 | It 's been amazing for the very fact that everything is so different , every job is different . |
| 23 | But generally it 's been unnecessary for us to have much contact . |
| 24 | It 's been dark for ages . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been temporary for six months now . |
| 26 | A lump sum , we wo n't ask for it back , and maybe it 's been useful for them to adapt their lives in the meantime . |
| 27 | It 's been useful for their maintenance . |
| 28 | Well , I mean , it 's a sticky wicket for them anyway politically and I suspect as with a lot of legislation quite recently they simply have n't spent the time in committee and in consultation to iron out the details and they 've come unstuck when it 's come into the public domain and it 's been easy for people to throw up the paradoxes that are coming up from the legislation , the moral paradoxes . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , it 's been tough for all of us . |
| 30 | ‘ It 's amazing how many people who , when you catch them with their trousers down and take a formal sample , will say , ‘ It 's been beautiful for the last two years and just this , just yesterday that this thing went wrong and your chap happened to come . ’ |