Example sentences of "have be [adv] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been there now for over ten years . |
| 2 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 3 | " They may have been all right for very old children . " |
| 4 | When we came to it , the militia had been there already for about an hour . |
| 5 | See the thing is , what they 've said to me , because I 've been away now for nearly two years erm I 'd have to go back and do all the training again , which is a bit of a pain but its not too bad because I 've done it before sort of thing , she said to me oh yeah when you go I , I might come along and see if I like it , and we can do the training together she said , I manage to put her off that idea , manage to talk her out of that . |
| 6 | We 've been back together for so long I 'd almost forgotten about it . |
| 7 | I said I 've been out here for about twenty minutes I better go back in . |
| 8 | Of course pyons have been around now for so long that you do n't need high energy machines to produce pyons . |
| 9 | Captain Dunbar 's been around now for over a year and most of Madeleine 's suitors last only a few months , so we think it 's serious . ’ |