Example sentences of "'s be [verb] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 2 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | It 's been building up for some time , I think . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 5 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 6 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 7 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 8 | It 's dragging on , it 's been dragging on for a year , but I 'm getting there slowly and I feel a lot more confident than last time . |
| 9 | Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't . |
| 10 | But it 's been going on for two years . ’ |
| 11 | It 's been going on for long enough and I think something should be done about it , ’ he added . |
| 12 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been going on for a long time , but yer Mum 's bin very foolish an' so have the rest . |
| 14 | Yeah , I mean it 's been going on for ages |
| 15 | I gather it 's been going on for years . ’ |
| 16 | When I told Flynn of this , he said , ‘ Oh , that 's been going on for centuries , did you not know ? ’ |
| 17 | We 'll debate and these instructions , but there 's always this shortfall , and it 's been going on for far too long , and we still have an increasing number of responsibilities , and I just find it extremely distressing to have to sit here time and time again , to go through doing things that we really know we should n't be . |
| 18 | It 's been going on for about seventeen months now and the in chief man at Hill House was rather interested to hear that we 'd not actually had it resolved yet , and asked for the reference numbers and . |
| 19 | Erm ironically after I wrote erm the letter was typed on Monday erm to Mr Mr the only lights that have been fixed since are the ones at the end of my street and the next street not as I complained about ones on the main road erm there 's an example that 's been going on for many months where a problem , an acknowledged problem of access existed which was the reason for delay but that as I understand it has been overcome some time ago now and it 's still there , this is a group of seven lights together , the lot , erm these lights are still out , they 're not in my ward in fact , they 're just . |
| 20 | it 's been going on for hundreds of years and I do n't see why it should stop . |
| 21 | It 's been going on for months |
| 22 | Well some of these national conflicts have been artificially created by the Soviet State , but of course some of them have n't like the Azerbaijan Armenian Border conflict , that 's been going on for centuries , it was existed before the Soviet and it 's gon na go on existing after it . |
| 23 | And then I got into this whole thing about what I call the invisible descender theory , which is a joke in my studio but it 's been going on for , you know , nearly twenty years so it 's become a law . |
| 24 | it 's been going on for |
| 25 | ‘ The Division 's been going out for the last fifteen years ; slowly but surely . ’ |
| 26 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |
| 27 | It 's a performance story that 's been adding up for over a decade . |
| 28 | It 's been lying up for about a year and a half |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been laid up for a while with a problem in the starting mechanism , but a friend is now completing a repair job for me , and we hope to be up and running again soon , ’ explained Gordon , pictured with the vehicle 's log-book . |
| 30 | ‘ I was sorry to see it go in a way , but on the other hand it 's been laid up for many years and now it 's going to give pleasure to other people . |