Example sentences of "'s be [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 2 | Bruno 's been training hard for this fight in Leicester . |
| 3 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |
| 4 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 5 | ‘ The thing is , Management will listen to him and he 'll get what he wants , not like poor old Ron who 's been waffling away for years and not getting anywhere . |
| 6 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 7 | It 's part of the biggest event of it 's kind to be staged in Britain , and it 's been held especially for handicapped and underprivileged youngsters . |
| 8 | His father 's been put away for as long as need be till he comes to his senses : he 's actually nuts . |
| 9 | After all , he 's been working here for centuries , and I bet no one 's ever heard him say ‘ Cut , that 's a wrap ’ , before . ’ |
| 10 | He 's been fined twice for assaulting policemen ; done for drugs ; fined and banned repeatedly for speeding ( following one conviction for doing 103 mph without a licence he said : ‘ I was only doing 95mph . |
| 11 | erm , it 's actually sitting there on the Meridian er Business Park , it 's been sitting there for three years er overgrown with er grass and what have you and it 's there . |
| 12 | It 's been sitting there for about three months . |
| 13 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |
| 15 | Like those cars , it 's been designed primarily for the track . |
| 16 | no it 's not , it 's been designed especially for it so erm he 's gon na get erm , I said what are you doing all this for I said , it 'll be easier to go and buy yourself a three wheeler |
| 17 | Nothing 's been changed here for ninety years , ’ the barman told me . |
| 18 | Depreciation 's been falling now for two or three years as our capital expenditure of depreciable assets has been falling indeed if you look at last year 's net of the nine million pounds purchase of the freehold to fourteen million the year before was only sixteen million erm so as the as the depreciation as the capital expenditure falls the depreciation will also fall that 's one reason . |