Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] be in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 2 | I 've been in business for 43 years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been in Australia for the entire time . |
| 4 | Then there was Octavia Hill ( ‘ I 've been in conservation for about two years ’ ) , Dr Barnardo , Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens . |
| 5 | I 've been in prison for assault , robbery , shoplifting and burglary . |
| 6 | You 'll be surprised to learn that I am still in Nanking : I 've been in hospital for 6 days with gastro-enteritis , but I 'm glad to say now I 'm fine , and am due to travel to Shanghai tomorrow . |
| 7 | As one teacher trainer put it not long ago , ‘ I have been in education for 25 years and I have never known morale so low . |
| 8 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 9 | I HAVE been in business for many years operating a small company in the construction industry . |
| 10 | I have been in rescue for 15 years , but I just can not explain that feeling . ’ |
| 11 | You 've been in bed for eight o'clock last night it 's now nine what 's that , thirteen odd hours ? |
| 12 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 13 | You 've been in office for four months . |
| 14 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 15 | We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’ |
| 16 | Managing director Michel Apchin confirmed takeover rumours , saying ‘ We have been in negotiations for the last few weeks with a group that is not French . |
| 17 | " But we have been in Egypt for three months . |
| 18 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 19 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 20 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 21 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |
| 22 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 23 | " They have been in seclusion for eight days , " said the sultan , " learning the secrets of womanhood . |
| 24 | For Opposition Members to paint a negative picture of TECs failing to do what they have been set up to do is not good enough , because , after all , they have been in existence for only two years . |
| 25 | They are Amazonian fish , and although they have been in captivity for a very long time , they will appreciate the soft acid water that nature designed them for , and this may prove essential for breeding . |
| 26 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 27 | It is for this same reason that training programmes in treatment centres are not normally considered for potential counsellor trainees until they have been in recovery for at least two years and preferably longer . |
| 28 | Said manager John Bell : ‘ The Canadians are building a huge power plant in Ontario and already they have been in touch for guidance on how we operate our laundry system . ’ |