Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 2 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 3 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 4 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 5 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 6 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 7 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 8 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 9 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 10 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 11 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 12 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 13 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 14 | The most difficult part of getting out a galvanised hot water tank is likely to be disconnecting the pipes leading to and from the boiler particularly if they have been there for some time . |
| 15 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 16 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 19 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 20 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 21 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 22 | Getting the old cistern out can sometimes be a problem — particularly if it 's been there for some time . |
| 23 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |