Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] have been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 2 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 3 | I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television . |
| 4 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 5 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 6 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 7 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 8 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 9 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 10 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 11 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 12 | Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't . |
| 13 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 14 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 15 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |