Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [been] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now unless you 're a skinhead of the old school , or have been time-warped for twenty years , parkas are not exactly in when it comes to neat threads . |
| 2 | The man accused of murdering an Open University lecturer was taken ill and has been absent for most of the second day of his trial . |
| 3 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 4 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 5 | This could be the year they do , though they say that around the Cam every year and have been wrong for 15 of the last 16 . |
| 6 | It was later occupied by the Earls of Cromarty and the MacKenzies of Ardloch-Assynt , but has been empty for 200 years . |