Example sentences of "been for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 2 | But this is my dwelling place and has been for nearly four months now . |
| 3 | All might still have been well had it not been for yet another unfortunate circumstance . |
| 4 | Have been for over a week . |
| 5 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 6 | And has been for over 40 years . |
| 7 | Once he had ( rightly ) rejected that argument , he treated the matter as one for the unfettered exercise of his discretion , in which W. 's views were merely a relatively unimportant factor , and expressed the view that his real choice was between the conflicting medical views of Dr. M. , the consultant psychiatrist in whose care W. had been for over a year , and Dr. G. , supported in the event by Dr. D. , another consultant psychiatrist with specialist experience in the field of anorexia nervosa . |
| 8 | Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years . |
| 9 | And as I said , Mrs Mary she 's the national treasurer and has been for over thirty years . |
| 10 | Mr Bodlender 's comments are supported by the results of the ninth quarterly Horwath Business Confidence Survey , which shows that Britain 's hoteliers are significantly more confident than they have been for over a year . |
| 11 | No , it was Marguerite Bryant now and had been for over fifteen years . |
| 12 | Only by now there were n't any more southbound stages and there had n't been for over a week . |
| 13 | ‘ Lower interest rates and current house price levels mean that house are more affordable now than they have been for over 20 years . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I am his girlfriend and have been for sometime , ’ she said last night . |
| 15 | So , that one must have been for abroad |
| 16 | For some time the weapons states have maintained that the peaceful trade in peaceful atoms has been for purely peaceful purposes . |
| 17 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 18 | It is amazing how dominant the educational establishment has been for so long , which is totally unacceptable . |
| 19 | I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years . |
| 20 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 21 | In so far as the house does represent a large capital asset , and it undoubtedly does , I am quite clear that in the long term , house prices are likely , generally to rise with inflation , indeed I would think must do so or perhaps to rise rather more quickly than inflation if there is a rising population and as there has been for very , very ma many years have passed , that , in the passed a decreasing occupancy rate . |
| 22 | That might have been for very good environmental and health reasons . |
| 23 | In recent years the alpine trend has been for less adventurous climbing : bolted instant classics from climbers ' such as Michel Piola — safe rock routes with a savage backdrop . |
| 24 | I can have one of these now I 've been the worst I 've been for about six months I really ! |
| 25 | Had been for about eighteen months . ’ |
| 26 | But it 's been for about two month now , but it 's |
| 27 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 28 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 29 | I could n't explain that I would have had to leave in a month or so anyway — but I pointed out that in fact I was n't well , had n't been for quite a while whatever he chose to think , and that a rest would do me good . |
| 30 | You see I I think er er probably one of the best erm Ministers of er of er Education that er has been for quite some considerable time and I bet you throw your hands up in horror when I say this you will totally disagree and I 'm talking here cos his name 's just slipped out of my mind . |