Example sentences of "'s been [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her tone is soothing , her whispers slide like sighs , but gently she is uncovering the reproach she 's been hiding for days . |
| 2 | It 's a time bomb that 's been ticking for centuries and the fuse has always been gold . |
| 3 | It 's been treated for burns but is expected to survive even without it 's mother . |
| 4 | A fresh appeal 's been made for witnesses to the murder of teenager who was stabbed to death at a social services office . |
| 5 | It 's been done for Venus and for Mercury about twenty years ago . |
| 6 | There 's nothing new in that — she 's been trying for years . |
| 7 | And yes , he 's been mistaken for food a few times ! |
| 8 | It 's been condemned for years now . |
| 9 | Cos that 's been shut for ages in n it ? |
| 10 | A young Bannockburn girl 's been scarred for life in a tragic playpark accident . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been examined for fingerprints . |
| 12 | OLYMPIC aces returning from Barcelona this week brought back a very silly story about cycling superstar Chris Boardman : ‘ Have you heard he 's been tested for drugs . ’ |
| 13 | Gator 's been riding for Vision practically since the birth of the wheel , and thus his models have always been a Vision favourite . |
| 14 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 15 | Well never can he and er the other partners with er the plant hire that 's been going for donkey 's ages and never shows a profit . |
| 16 | Yeah , that 's a very old make you know , that one 's been going for donkey years , but it 's those colours , I mean there 's at least , well with the o |
| 17 | Stella 's been working for Perry . |
| 18 | Stratus Computer Inc now has the only Asian versions of Jyacc 's Application Manager JAM NLS for screen development , priced from $6,000 : It 's been localised for Korea with Hangul , Japan with Kanji and Katakana and China with traditional and simplified Chinese characters . |
| 19 | He 's been canoeing for years . |
| 20 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 21 | What he can do is instill a sense of purpose and energy that 's been missing for years . |
| 22 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 23 | A farmer who 's been fighting for years to KEEP gypsies on his land has been given the go-ahead after a public inquiry . |
| 24 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 25 | There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be . |
| 26 | Questions range from the extreme — ‘ My client 's been arrested for murder ’ — to the mundane — ‘ I have just received a mailshot from another firm which is quite appalling . ’ |
| 27 | It does n't matter it 's been recording for ages . |
| 28 | And she passed with flying colours She 's been driving for years apparently but she had to take a test . |
| 29 | Elstree is not able to take all the aviation business that 's been displaced for weeks that I know of and , and for Hatfield I 've been notified by two people who are at present at Hatfield , one of whom is going to move to Stansted . |
| 30 | Inside , it looks as if it 's been used for tank practice . |