Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have been at ITN for a long time and come from a traditional news background . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I have been in Paris for 4 days and just got back to read the 100 messages from the list ! |
| 4 | I HAVE been in business for many years operating a small company in the construction industry . |
| 5 | I have been in rescue for 15 years , but I just can not explain that feeling . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ During the last few weeks we have been to Kent for the filming . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " But we have been in Egypt for three months . |
| 9 | They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting . |
| 10 | " They have been in seclusion for eight days , " said the sultan , " learning the secrets of womanhood . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |