Example sentences of "we [verb] [been] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , he said , we 've been to Yorkshire for our honeymoon . |
| 2 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 3 | We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’ |
| 4 | When Aziru sent his Khabiris against us , finally , we had been under siege for three years . |
| 5 | We had been at Orange for a week and were having a kit inspection . |
| 6 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 7 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 8 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 9 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 10 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 11 | " But we have been in Egypt for three months . |