Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 2 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 3 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 4 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 5 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 6 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 7 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 8 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 9 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 10 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 11 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |