Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " 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 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 13 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 14 | She has been there for two years . |
| 15 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 18 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 19 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 20 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 21 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 22 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |
| 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 . |