Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [been] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.

  Next page

No	Sentence
1	After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff .
2	My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four .
3	These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 .
4	How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ?
5	The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach .
6	It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
7	It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time .
8	You think of the people , I mean , these people have been there for all those years
9	Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time .
10	Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down .
11	Those papers have been there for more than a century .
12	Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time .
13	50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day .

  Next page