Example sentences of "[pers pn] 's been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think she 's been five times to my house in all the time I 've lived there , now in the early days er she said that when it , hang on , she said she 'd never come down cos she did n't like er
2 Go on , ask her where she 's been all afternoon , dressed up like a tart and missing for bloody hours .
3 She 's got a bruise on her arm like she 's been ten rounds with Dempsey … and it 's all your fault . ’
4 and it 's been good fun , they do want to come back
5 It 's been good fun .
6 It 's been good talking to you .
7 It 's been 10 years now since I left the farm , and I 'm happy that I 've ‘ escaped ’ to London .
8 It 's been grand chatting to you , Michael .
9 It 's been five years since Zoë Fairbairns last published a novel , during that time she has been writing a huge and compelling family saga , Daddy 's Girls .
10 Then someone turns around and says , ‘ It 's been five years since your last tour , ’ and you say , ‘ What ? ! ’
11 It 's been five years since I won , ’ Levi said after the round , ‘ five years of struggling .
12 It 's been five weeks since Seventy year old Jim Eggleton was found dead at his home in Russell 's Water .
13 He said : ‘ It 's been great fun .
14 BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ .
15 Ian Snodin , back after four hamstrings and two knee operations , said : ‘ That was my first 90 minutes for two-and-a-half years , and it 's been four years since I played a full match in midfield .
16 ‘ Do n't suppose it 's been much help . ’
17 ‘ And it 's been six hours of torment for me .
18 The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver .
19 It 's been six years now since we first looked at Faliraki as a club resort .
20 It 's been six years , Paul .
21 It 's been nineteen months since fog and the M4 combined to create an inferno of blazing cars and lorries .
22 Radio personality Michael Parkinson said : ‘ It 's been general knowledge for ages .
23 We 've said in the past it 's been fifty percent full stop .
24 It 's been eight days now . ’
25 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 .
26 It 's been that way ever since I can remember .
27 For as long as I can remember it 's been that way . ’
28 ( WES AD LIB ) ( ANNE ) Still to come on Central News , it 's been marvellous boating weather
29 ‘ Well , it 's been nice meeting you , miss .
30 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 !
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