Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 2 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 3 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 4 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 6 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 7 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 8 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 9 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 10 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 11 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 12 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 13 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 17 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 18 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 19 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 20 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 21 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 22 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 23 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 24 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 25 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 26 | This had been there for thousands of years and had defeated the British Raj 's efforts to move it . |