Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 2 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 3 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 4 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 5 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |