Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 2 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 3 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 4 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 5 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 7 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 8 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 9 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 10 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 11 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |
| 12 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 13 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 14 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 15 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 16 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |
| 17 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |