Example sentences of "been [prep] a [noun sg] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biggins , who scored 22 goals last season and was on target again on Saturday , has been after a wage rise for some time and is currently on a weekly contract . |
| 2 | Some reports said that the operation had been against a training camp for Islamic fundamentalists and army deserters established by Said Mekhloufi , a former army officer said to be now allied with the FIS . |
| 3 | He said Sigsworth had been on a drinking binge for several days before going to the police station . |
| 4 | ‘ Human beings have been on an ego trip for centuries . |
| 5 | When the War Office discovered in 1881 that Clarke had been at a home station for twenty-seven years , it ordered him to sever his connection with the Ordnance Survey and take up a post in Mauritius . |