Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 2 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 3 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 4 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 5 | The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election . |
| 6 | But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ? |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 8 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 9 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 10 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 11 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 12 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 13 | Of course there had been time for two moves in the interim . |
| 14 | Its 1979 census population of about 162,000 was 75.9 per cent Armenian and only 22.9 per cent Azerbaijani , and there had been pressure for some years for its transfer back to Armenia and for a greater degree of autonomy for its predominantly Christian people . |
| 15 | There had been applause for all the ‘ fraternal delegates and distinguished visitors ’ including Fianna Fail , Fine Gael and Labour . |
| 16 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 17 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 18 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 19 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 20 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 21 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 22 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 23 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 24 | The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable . |
| 25 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 26 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |