Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 2 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 3 | I 've been grateful for Jessie having my key because er I 've locked myself out one or two |
| 4 | As I 've been stuck for years now |
| 5 | The dispute , which has been simmering for years , came to the boil in April when Michael Harcourt , the province 's premier , revealed a scheme that would protect 33% of the region , permit limited logging in 17% , and open the rest to extensive ( although , at least in theory , well-managed ) timber harvesting . |
| 6 | This was an unusually clear and succinct statement of assumptions which had been current for generations . |
| 7 | The corporation will pay the estimated £250,000 costs of the action , which had been due for trial in January . |
| 8 | Also recommended was the withdrawal from the townships of the most controversial of the security forces , the former Namibian counterinsurgency unit Koevoet ( " Crowbar " ) and 32 battalion , members of which had been responsible for rape and other assaults during " peacekeeping " operations . |
| 9 | The principal families of the Khanate were all interrelated , and so it was not hard to understand why the defective genes which had been responsible for Nogai 's early death recurred in so many of his blood . |
| 10 | Slides which have been carbon-coated for probe work , however , can be examined directly in cold cathode equipment ; the thin coating offers no impediment to the electron beam . |
| 11 | I promptly eased it back onto the lap and desperately tried to imitate someone who has been asleep for hours , with his arm wrapped fiercely round his dog . |
| 12 | Ruth McCurry , who has been responsible for Mowbray 's development since its purchase by Cassell in 1988 , continues as publisher with responsibility for Geoffrey Chapman . |
| 13 | ‘ She has been marvellous for Constance . |
| 14 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 15 | You 've been edgy for months . ’ |
| 16 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 17 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |
| 18 | Two patients who had been negative for dysplasia were found to have low grade dysplasia in their colectomy specimens . |
| 19 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 20 | Despite Lenin 's theory of national self-determination , the new Soviet Union still embraced the great bulk of the old imperial domains , including minorities like the Georgians and the Ukrainians who had been civilized for centuries before the denizens of what was to become Muscovy . |
| 21 | Five others who had been eligible for parole following the first trial were now imprisoned . |
| 22 | Increasingly such flats have come to be part of a system of ‘ less eligibility ’ for those households whose actual behaviour is judged not to conform to the domestic ideal : women single parents dependent on state benefits , families with housewives who are defined as ‘ poor ’ housekeepers by other women employed by the local authority to make such judgements ( Ungerson , 1971 ) , families headed by men who have been unemployed for years , and single women ( Austerberry and Watson , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | We encounter people who have been dead for years , or improbably have conversations with film stars or royalty . |
| 24 | ‘ She 's been dead for hours , ’ he commented . |
| 25 | But — yes , the poor old thing is rather queer — in fact , she 's been mad for years , so you see now why I needed no special qualifications . |
| 26 | Albert said , ‘ She 's been ill for ages . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been worried for years about their tendency to see Britain as a soft market in which to make a killing . ’ |
| 28 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 29 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 30 | It has been rare for shareholders to raise concerns with company boards on audit matters , probably because they are not well-informed and because their priorities are elsewhere . |