Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 3 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 4 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 5 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 6 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 7 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |