Example sentences of "[pron] 's be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 2 | Aye , cos about six month ago there was a job come up in our office for like a trainee assistant manager type , well an assistant to an assistant manager kind of thing so I applied for it and another woman in the office applied for it cos she 's been here for like sixteen years or whatever . |
| 3 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 4 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 5 | She 's been there for — oh , it must be twenty years . |
| 6 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 7 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 8 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 9 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
| 10 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm not saying they won because of that , but … people are used to it , it 's been there for 20 years . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah , it 's been there for quite a while . |
| 15 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 16 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 17 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 18 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 19 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 20 | it 's been inside for two hours and ca n't get out |
| 21 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 22 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 23 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 24 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
| 25 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |