Example sentences of "who have be [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth .
2 It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years .
3 There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them .
4 " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time …
5 No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days .
6 He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work .
7 A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’
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