Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] for [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 2 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 3 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 4 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 5 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 6 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 7 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |