Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [be] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many would now see this HCF model as pushing RE into a backwater if it is pursued on its own , it is still a highly influential view , and is likely to go on being so for some time because Agreed Syllabuses on the whole encourage it . |
| 2 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 3 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 4 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 5 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 6 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 7 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 8 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 9 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 10 | have n't been there for many years |