Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 32 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 33 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 36 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 37 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 38 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 39 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 40 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 41 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 42 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 43 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 44 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 45 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 46 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 47 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 48 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 49 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 50 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 53 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 54 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 55 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 56 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 57 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 58 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |
| 59 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 60 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |