Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 3 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 4 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 6 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 7 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 8 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 9 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 10 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 11 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 12 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 13 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 14 | She has been there for two years . |
| 15 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 16 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 17 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 18 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 19 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 20 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 21 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 22 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 23 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 24 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 25 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 26 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 27 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 28 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 29 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 30 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |