Example sentences of "'s be [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.

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1 He 's come here with a fixed idea , which he 's been looking forward to for half his life .
2 School is something Sophie 's been looking forward to for ages , and it 's not long before she 's settled in .
3 Yes , I 'm sure he 's a very very happy man tonight , he 's been looking forward to this game tremendously for the last couple of weeks .
4 ‘ He 's been moved across to the main camp . ’
5 ‘ For Christ 's sake — because I believe Tweed is innocent , that he 's been framed up to the hilt .
6 ‘ It 's been building up to this .
7 ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ .
8 ‘ I 'm afraid he 's been sent off to the railway , sir .
9 Erm once they 've they 've gone off this sheet and it 's been transferred incorrectly to the project plan and the price of the plan .
10 The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time .
11 ‘ She 's been taken up to her dressing room .
12 ‘ The lap-top turned out to belong to the Admiral , so it 's been taken off to Scotland Yard for fingerprinting and all that while they analyse the contents of the disk .
13 He 's been taken back to Banbury where 's he helping police with their enquiries .
14 Despite three attempts to buy it and run it themselves , it 's been sold instead to another private bidder .
15 But at the moment it 's not really a great problem , because the lads here go and see the prostitutes , report them for summons , and we do Well in my time here certainly , i it 's been reduced considerably to what it was .
16 The money 's been pouring on to Gala 's Image , odds have come down from 25 to 1 .
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