Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 9 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 10 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 13 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 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 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 18 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 21 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 22 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 23 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 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 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 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 . |