Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 32 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 33 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 34 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 35 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 36 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 37 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 38 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 39 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 40 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 41 | We 've been pally for years Sadie . |
| 42 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 43 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 44 | " You 've been out for hours . " |
| 45 | Posh have been up for grabs since last year and chairman John Devaney , a property magnate and ex-Oxford director , will sell if the price is right . |
| 46 | The posters have been up for weeks … when the powerboat circus comes to town … the streets and squares close down … everyone makes for the river … every bridge … and every balcony becomes a grandstand … a ring side seat for the big race … |
| 47 | Some of the titles currently optioned have been around for years , but the prospects are tantalising . |
| 48 | Doc Martens BOOTS have been around for years . |
| 49 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 50 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 51 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 52 | These have been here for months |
| 53 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 54 | Several dogs have been in for boosters and there 's a bitch to be spayed tomorrow . |
| 55 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 56 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 57 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 58 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 59 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 60 | No one 's been here for years . ’ |