Example sentences of "been in the [noun sg] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ca n't really put it off , been in the diary for ages . |
| 2 | IT HAS BEEN in the air for months : Charles Saatchi , according to New York 's uniquely garrulous and paranoid clan of dealers and artists , is selling , and he is selling in a big way . |
| 3 | Even if Robbie had been in the mood for laughter , it would have been a cynical mirth . |
| 4 | We 've been in the building for hours actually . |
| 5 | There were no variations of fading between the main body of the photograph and the edges , as there would have been had it been in the frame for years . |
| 6 | Left : The pretty wild rose Rosa rugosa has been in the garden for years , and has the bonus of glossy red hips in the autumn . |
| 7 | AS FAR AS Irish nationalists are concerned , the British security forces in Northern Ireland have never been in the running for prizes for popularity . |
| 8 | Nobody 's interested in laying down wine for the future , when they 're dead : instead they 're all drinking up what 's been in the cellar for decades . |
| 9 | Another advantage Granada has over the competition , he says , is that unlike the big vendors now scurrying onto the marketplace to boost revenues , Granada — structured around the Data Processing Customer Engineering Plc acquisition and sundry add-ons — has been in the game for years and knows its strengths and weaknesses . |
| 10 | He had been in the area for hours , and had spent about fifteen quid on teas and coffees . |
| 11 | ‘ The corpses must have been in the marsh for days , even weeks . |
| 12 | Nigel went along on his own with a nice little pair of mother-of-pearl binoculars that had been in the family for generations . |
| 13 | Both sexes were clad in essentially masculine garments which looked as though they had been in the family for generations : waxed jackets , sensible shoes , chunky pullovers , indestructible tweeds and cords . |
| 14 | They were followed by the Kiplings when they retired from Clove Lodge , which had been in the family for generations . |
| 15 | If Laura dropped in conversation that a piece of furniture had been in the family for generations , who was to argue ? |
| 16 | The name 's been in the family for generations , too . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been in the family for generations , said the tray , so you can see that they 're not just a bunch of jumped-up farmers like so many around these days . |
| 18 | Mr Lear was the son of an ironmonger who owned a business in Horsemarket , Darlington , which had been in the family for generations . |
| 19 | The carpet has obviously been in the family for years , too , and the Rembrandt is unrestored and almost completely black . |
| 20 | It 's been in the family for years |
| 21 | I recently spring cleaned my lovely home , as one is inclined to do now and again , when I came upon a pile of old magazines which had been in the house for years . |
| 22 | Camillo had not been in the attic for months and perhaps for years . |
| 23 | So it 's been in the garage for years ? |