Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
2 | 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 . |
3 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
4 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
5 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
6 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
7 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
8 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
9 | The Tetris theme has been around for some years now but shareware authors have taken the original idea to new heights . |
10 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |