Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 4 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 5 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 6 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 7 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 9 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 10 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 11 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 13 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 14 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 15 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 16 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |