Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [adv] for [art] " 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 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 4 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 5 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 8 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 9 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 10 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 11 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 12 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 16 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 17 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 18 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 19 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 20 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 21 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 22 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 23 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 26 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 27 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 28 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 29 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 30 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |