Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 2 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 3 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 4 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 5 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 6 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 7 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 8 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 10 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 11 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 12 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 13 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 14 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 15 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 16 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 17 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 18 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 19 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 20 | Adult worm burdens are typically in excess of 40,000 , although lower numbers are often found in animals which has been diarrhoeic for several days prior to necropsy . |
| 21 | We are trying to populate a land which has been derelict for two thousand years with a people which has been scattered for two thousand years . |
| 22 | Since 1983 large areas of Peru have been progressively designated emergency zones and placed under military control as part of counter-insurgency operations against the armed opposition groups , principally Sendero Luminoso which has been responsible for widespread atrocities . |
| 23 | The traffic-light , which has been green for some time , turns red . |
| 24 | At the summit of Pico do Arieiro ( 1,818m ) there is a snack bar which has been open for many years , and a pousada recently opened . |
| 25 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 26 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 27 | The 45 residents of Etna Drive in Ardoyne can now look out proudly at shrubs and flowers on land which had been derelict for 17 years . |
| 28 | But the downside is that Pinatubo — which had been dormant for 600 years — may have been the reason we have all been reaching for our brollies and in some cases sandbagging the front door over the past few weeks . |
| 29 | The authorities scored a significant success in the ongoing struggle against the underground movement within the armed forces — which had been responsible for numerous coup attempts against the government of President Corazon Aquino — with the arrest in Manila on Feb. 6 of Lt.-Col. Victor Batac and Maj. Abraham Purugganan . |
| 30 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |