Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 32 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 33 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 34 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 35 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 36 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 37 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 38 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 39 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 40 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 41 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 42 | We 've been pally for years Sadie . |
| 43 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 44 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 45 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 46 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 47 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 48 | Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years . |
| 49 | Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ? |
| 50 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 51 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 52 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 53 | She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom . |
| 54 | You 've been there for over a month . ’ |
| 55 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 56 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 57 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 58 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 59 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 60 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |