Example sentences of "we [verb] be [noun pl] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 2 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 3 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 4 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 5 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 6 | What we need are outlets for emotion . |