Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 4 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 5 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 6 | The very same women who had been all for their daughters travelling abroad seemed suddenly to get bored with the idea . |
| 7 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 8 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 9 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 11 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 12 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 13 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 14 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |
| 15 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 16 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 17 | They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school . |
| 18 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 19 | ‘ It was a crowd of boys who 'd been together for years — somebody was always up to something . |
| 20 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 21 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 22 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 23 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 24 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 25 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 26 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 27 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 28 | ‘ We 'd been together for — since I was 17 . |
| 29 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 30 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |