Example sentences of "they have been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 2 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 3 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 4 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 5 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 6 | They 've been responsible for making Joan Collins a sex symbol at fifty-three . |
| 7 | if it 's just like one exam or two exams that they 've failed or they 've been ill for or they 've missed or something they 're offered the opportunity to sit those in September then we have another exam board in September |
| 8 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 9 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 10 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 11 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 12 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 13 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 14 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 15 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 16 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 17 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |
| 18 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 19 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 20 | During the follow up period there were only five ears in which fluid recurred and persisted for at least one year after they had been clear for at least one year . |
| 21 | Native birds of region , from Caucasus and SW Asia , all belong to black-necked colchicus type , with rather dark and purplish plumage , lower back and rump mainly rufous , and no neck ring ; these were first introduced in W Europe and in Britain , where they have been present for at least 900 years , used to be known as the ‘ Old English ’ type . |
| 22 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 23 | As Kenneth Clark states in his classic study The Nude : ‘ [ Artists ] have found it easier to compose harmoniously the larger units of a woman 's torso ; they have been grateful for its smoother transitions , and above all they have discovered analogies with satisfying geometrical forms , the oval , the ellipsoid and the sphere ’ . |
| 24 | They have been vacant for three months . |
| 25 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 26 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 27 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 28 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |
| 29 | ‘ They have been working on the driving maul yet it 's not something they have been renowned for in the past . ’ |
| 30 | They have been responsible for destroying one of earth 's greatest treasures . |