Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 2 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 3 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 4 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 5 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |