Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | PET ‘ HOTEL HATES ’ ( THE FREQUENT ONES ) * narrow stairs and no lifts * low shower pressure * telephone kiosks built for left-handed midgets * only one plug , down on the floor under the bed and 5AMP * hairdryers on 1m fixed lead from the floor socket 3m away from wall mirror facing opposite direction * just two 40 watt lamps to read and work by * toilet rolls positioned for contortionists only * room service that brings each course separately throughout Dallas * radiators that have n't been on for years * radiators that wo n't go off * basins that take half an hour to empty after you 've cleaned your teeth and you want to shave * stoppers that hang under the cold water tap but do n't reach the drain * stoppers that have no chain so you wallow in the dirty water to find them * toilets where you can sit down or close the door but not both |
| 2 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 3 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 4 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 5 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 6 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 7 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 8 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 9 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 10 | So typical , is n't it , that when you go to see plays , you always like , dashing to the last minute to try and get tickets and been on for like , two months . |
| 11 | not been on for ages . |
| 12 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 13 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 16 | Jacklin had pulled up short about 50 or 60 yards from the green — just the sort of position I 'd liked to have been in for us , ; Trevino put his fourth shot through the green . |
| 17 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 20 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 21 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 22 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 23 | Several dogs have been in for boosters and there 's a bitch to be spayed tomorrow . |
| 24 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 25 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 26 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 27 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 28 | They have n't been in for quite a while . |
| 29 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 30 | But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter . |