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 ! |