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 . |