Example sentences of "have be in [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 2 | ‘ You can win money but you can not eat , ’ said a member of the Ukrainian-Russian squad who have been in England for the past fortnight . |
| 3 | Nor do they always distinguish Turks who have been in Germany for years from recent ‘ economic migrants ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ All these customers were gained from , or won in competition with , Castrol , who have been in Czechoslovakia for 30 years , ’ says Pomfret with delight . |
| 5 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 6 | ( It is interesting to note that the Jeffery family have been in Donhead for centuries as The Visitation of Wilts 1565 records that the first wife of Alderman Thomas Pople of Salisbury , was ‘ Katherine , daughter to John Jeffery of Doned Marie , Dorset ’ . ) |
| 7 | " But we have been in Egypt for three months . |
| 8 | Many of these farm workers originally migrated from Zambia or Mozambique , but some have been in Zimbabwe for a generation or more though they have no regularized status . |