Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [vb -s] been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My son has been dead for three years . |
| 2 | . Just think of this food , clothing , shoes all to come out of my earnings the average of £3.9.9d. a little more sometimes , a few shillings Bonus , and my son has been ill for the past three weeks , whos going to pay the doctors Bill also I have lost time at work through air raid warnings no pay . |
| 3 | ‘ My family has been sterile for generations . ’ |
| 4 | There is nothing he can tell you beyond what I already have — that as far as we are concerned my mother has been dead for more than twenty years . ’ |
| 5 | Well I mean her mother 's been dead for , I do n't know how many years . |
| 6 | Aleksandr Sergeyevich Yakovlev is probably one of the most well-known of all Soviet aircraft designers and his OKB has been responsible for a wide variety of aircraft types . |