Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 2 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 3 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 4 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 5 | But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter . |
| 6 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 7 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 8 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 9 | He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 11 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 12 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 13 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 14 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 15 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 16 | an injection and been back for a check up , yes it 's a good thirty pounds , you ca n't step in the door really without twenty five pounds . |
| 17 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 18 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 19 | ‘ You been out for a joyride , Preston ? ’ he had a deep , lazy voice . |
| 20 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 21 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 22 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 23 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 24 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
| 25 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 26 | We have n't been out for a drink us since , I think last time we went out New Year 's Day |
| 27 | They had already shaken hands and been out for a meal together . |
| 28 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 29 | I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television . |
| 30 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |