Example sentences of "[vb base] been [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 2 | Well , now I 've been past many a field of hay but it does n't smell like it used to in my young days . |
| 3 | Over the past three years , raids have been carried out as police target crack dealers who 've been behind many shootings and violent assaults . |
| 4 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 5 | I have been to many throughout the country . |
| 6 | I have been to many of those areas and seen the problems . |
| 7 | The Faroe Islands are self-governing , but have been for many years a colony of Denmark , and still rely on the government of the old mother country for international representation . |
| 8 | Many are extremely tense , not only since the infarct , but have been for many years , and it is possible that the inward tension that they suffer has been a contributory factor to their disease . |
| 9 | These will be concerns for his successor as David will take his leave of the Education Department at the end of July and his immediate plans are more leisurely now than they have been for many years . |
| 10 | Erm , please , appalling and have been for many years and er the whole of the road needs to be done . |
| 11 | ‘ House repossessions are at no higher rate than they have been for many years , ’ he says . |
| 12 | I 've never been in any factory in my life , working nights , I have been in many , but I 've never found my fellow men very sociable on the night shift . |