Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 2 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 3 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 4 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 5 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 6 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 7 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 8 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 9 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 10 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 11 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 12 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 13 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 14 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 15 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 16 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 17 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 18 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 19 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 20 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 21 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 22 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 23 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 24 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 25 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 26 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 27 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 28 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 29 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 30 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |