Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [be] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It , too , must have been there for years .
2 It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body .
3 They must have been there for years . ’
4 She wished he could have been here for Christmas .
5 How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl .
6 Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries .
7 In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 .
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