Example sentences of "she [vb past] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 2 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 3 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 4 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 5 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 6 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 7 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 8 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 9 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 10 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 11 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 12 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 13 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |