Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 2 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 3 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 4 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 5 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 6 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 7 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 8 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 9 | There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified . |
| 10 | On a sale of a private company , or if there have been reorganisations for taxation purposes , it is common for the seller to require the contract to be conditional on a clearance under s.703 ( cancellation of tax advantage ) and any other applicable tax provisions . |
| 11 | There have been gains for nature conservation in that the storms have prompted a fundamental questioning of the received view . |
| 12 | There have been stations for service establishments , such as RAF Cranwell and Cosford Aerodrome . |
| 13 | There have been stations for hospitals ( Cheddleton Asylum , Whittingham Hospital ) and stations for schools ( Wellington College , Christ 's Hospital ) . |
| 14 | There have been stations for factories . |
| 15 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |
| 16 | He has been MP for Hull East since 1970 . |
| 17 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |