Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been for [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 She has been for weeks . ’
2 She will stay with the man at whose side she has been for years , Secretary of State James Baker .
3 It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades .
4 It has been for years .
5 That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’
6 So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times .
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