Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] been [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I think it does have something to do with drugs , because if you look at all those Spiral Tribe people who 've just been on E for so long , y'know ? |
| 3 | I 'VE just been to court for the first time in my life at 74 , because my local council said I owed them £63 for my wife 's poll tax during 1991–92 . |
| 4 | Since coming here , I 've not been in trouble for a year ’ . |
| 5 | If we have only been on cover for a short time and it is clear that the majority of the damage occurred before we came on cover , the claim should be referred to the previous insurers . |
| 6 | Struggling to make himself heard above the chants of the crowd , the manager said : ‘ I have only been on Teesside for ten months , but thank you for making it memorable so far . |
| 7 | We have only been in post for three weeks , but this is our second confrontation with Fred . |
| 8 | I also feel it was a great honour being a woman and having achieved it in such a short space of time as I have only been in hairdressing for around six years . |
| 9 | Harwood 's tale of brotherly love too , by its nature , changes into a different gear in its second half after an opening act in which the Manx brothers ‘ we have not been on speakies for ten years ’ look poised for a reconciliation . |
| 10 | The reasons given for these sales are that the Museum has limited storage space in its present building , and that the works in question have not been on exhibition for some considerable time , or duplicate existing holdings . |
| 11 | On 21 May , Christie 's New York will sell thirty-one Italian paintings from the Getty 's collection , most of which have not been on view for many years either due to their unsatisfactory condition or their downgraded status : a ‘ Rest on the Flight into Egypt ’ was described in 1963 as ‘ the greatest reward for visitors to the collection … by Orazio Gentileschi , a Caravaggesque masterpiece by an artist who had learned the lesson of realism ’ , only to be dubbed a later copy , probably Francesco Gentileschi , in the opinion of R.W. Bissel , the leading authority on the artist ( est. $50–70,000 ) . |
| 12 | Describing the plight of Somali children , it explains : ’ Many of them have not been in school for several years when they arrive in this country ’ . |
| 13 | Equally , we must have realistic expectations of TECs and realise that those that have not been in existence for very long — as is the case with our own TEC , which has been going only since April — will take time to work themselves up to their most effective point . |
| 14 | I have also been at work for eighteen hours in an icy room with one thin sandwich and one wretched cup of coffee to sustain me . |
| 15 | But it is quite clear that a large number of people believe these three , who have now been in prison for 13 years , to be innocent of the crime for which they stand convicted . |
| 16 | Today the large populations are in varzea rich in fish and turtle protein , much smaller ones on the terra firme , but they have now been in decline for some 500 years since the European invasion . |
| 17 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 18 | I mean I have n't been to Guildford for oh god I do n't know when I think probably with you the last time I went to Guildford . |
| 19 | For those who have n't been to Versailles for many years , there is now much more to see . |
| 20 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 21 | I have n't been in wards for about twenty two years . |