Example sentences of "'s been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | said I 've got a guy that 's been stood here for an hour , do n't know what to do with him . . |
| 2 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 3 | ‘ Oh , Charlie , you know my mind 's been made up for years . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 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 | It 's been shut down for a fortnight , it 's all getting modernized and all that , upgraded . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |
| 11 | His father 's been put away for as long as need be till he comes to his senses : he 's actually nuts . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And when she 's been confined there for days you sometimes have n't bothered with a towel . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Like those cars , it 's been designed primarily for the track . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | Nothing 's been changed here for ninety years , ’ the barman told me . |
| 19 | ‘ Anyway , you can stay until your ankle 's better and something 's been sorted out for you . ’ |
| 20 | With a rat like Mahoney you can usually bet he 's been rubbed out for business reasons . |
| 21 | COLBERT : He 's been paid back for dropping in on every human being possible . |