Example sentences of "been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Industrial discipline has always been harsher for manual than non-manual workers . |
| 2 | It must have been humiliating for her to accept that after helping him to create an empire within show business , he should choose to spend his time with a younger woman . |
| 3 | It would have been humiliating for her to say to her mother , ‘ I had nothing to do with it ; it was the bright boy who made the suggestion to the grand dame . ’ |
| 4 | Since the end of Athens ' archaic war with Eleusis it would have been absurd for any deme of Attica to think of rivalling Athens . |
| 5 | The economy of these villages — in Mirpur , Jhelum or in East Punjab across the Indo-Pakistan border ( see Table 1 & map ) — has been feudal for centuries . |
| 6 | ‘ Would n't it have been simpler for you to be independent back home ? ’ |
| 7 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 8 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 9 | The cats have been asleep for days . |
| 10 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 11 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 12 | I promptly eased it back onto the lap and desperately tried to imitate someone who has been asleep for hours , with his arm wrapped fiercely round his dog . |
| 13 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 14 | ‘ You must have been asleep for a very long time , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ Dear me , I must have been asleep for … |
| 16 | ‘ Because , ’ he said , mopping his plate industriously with a piece of bread , ‘ when you 've been asleep for — no , I do n't want to know — you 're bound to feel a bit peckish when you wake up . ’ |
| 17 | She must have been asleep for some hours when the sound of her opening bedroom door penetrated her dreams and brought her instantly awake . |
| 18 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 19 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 20 | I 've been asleep for an hour . |
| 21 | The heavy lunch and the wine had made her sleepy , and she took to her bed the minute they returned , only awakening when the hunger pangs assaulted her stomach , to see that she had been asleep for over three hours . |
| 22 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 23 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 24 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 25 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 26 | He must have been asleep for hours . |
| 27 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 28 | This fairy castle in the clouds has been asleep for a hundred years and the briars are beginning to take over . |
| 29 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 30 | ‘ The nurse tells me she 's been asleep for some time . ’ |