Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 2 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 3 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 4 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 5 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 6 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 7 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 8 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 9 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 10 | It must have been there for at least an hour . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 13 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 14 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 15 | 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 . |