Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 2 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 4 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 5 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 6 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 7 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 8 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 9 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 10 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 11 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 12 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 13 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 14 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 15 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 16 | We have n't been together for three months . |
| 17 | have n't been there for many years |