Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [prep] the [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can just hear your voice answering the phone , as if I 've been to the shop for some ciggies and I 'm back late . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I 've been on the road for three days . ’ |
| 3 | Many years ago I came across the card in the Doll Museum in Wrexham and I 've been on the lookout for it every since . ’ |
| 4 | mhm When you first started , though , Eva Barnes , you 're the deputy leader of the Labour group now , you 've been on the Council for how long ? |
| 5 | As the shop door closed behind her , Miss Belle , speaking breathlessly as if she had been running , said , ‘ We 've been on the look-out for you . |
| 6 | Margot Farnham : I 'm involved in the Trouble and Strife collective which is a radical feminist British journal , it 's our fifth birthday issue , we 've been going since 1983 and I 've been on the collective for two years . |
| 7 | I 've been on the list for an operation since February . |
| 8 | We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning . |
| 9 | ‘ Listen , Tone , I 've been on the game for eighteen years , woman and girl , and I 've had some strange ones in my time , but never anyone like this . |
| 10 | We 've been in the building for hours actually . |
| 11 | Sergeant Major , you 've been in the Army for about nigh on twenty years now , do you think that a soldier has to be able to cope with that sort of taunting and name calling when he 's on the streets of Belfast for example . |
| 12 | But I 've been in the wood for many years and there is a lot more to read than what I keep in the shaman 's lodge . |
| 13 | Because people who 've been in the press for quite a long time were using this before we took over the telephone system . |
| 14 | I 've been in the game for eight years and have never tasted such a chilling fear . |
| 15 | The cardboard mostly rotted away , but they 've been in the ground for no more than 20 years and the bomb experts say they 're not military . |
| 16 | We 're very much involved in what 's called in-service training , in the retraining and helping of teachers who 've been in the profession for some years , and who need to get new qualifications or refreshment in their professional work . |
| 17 | I think we have to be a little bit careful about this because , of course , erm the feeling is not that once they 've been in the job for a little while that they are still amateurs , it 's merely that we do n't require them to know a great deal about what they 're going to do before they start . |
| 18 | I 've been in the family for generations , said the tray , so you can see that they 're not just a bunch of jumped-up farmers like so many around these days . |
| 19 | Right and also comments and suggestions although we 've been in the business for a number of years , er comments and suggestions are always er welcomed and and and considered very carefully . |
| 20 | Oh n no we 've , we 've been in the area for about fifteen years but we 've , we needed a move up so er that 's why we 've come here . |
| 21 | I 've been in the trade for 29 years and I 've never known it this bad . |
| 22 | Existing borrowers who have been with the society for five years or more may get a reduction in their interest rate if they have never been in arrears . |
| 23 | I have been with the church for ten years now . ’ |
| 24 | I take it a number of er execs have been with the company for a |
| 25 | Should this happen , you may be entitled to compensation providing you have been with the firm for more than two years . |
| 26 | ‘ All the servants at the hacienda have been with the count for years , some since he was a child . ’ |
| 27 | Another major agency , Brook Street Bureau , has recently offered employee status and the guarantee of work to certain of its temporary office workers , those with " top skills , wide experience and who have been with the agency for at least three months " ( see Financial Times , 12/4/88 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ I have been with the club for 10 weeks and sometimes it feels like 10 years . |
| 29 | I have been on the council for three or four years , perhaps one of the more outspoken ones . ’ |
| 30 | We there 's Don and myself two individuals who have been on the course for incident training with Fire Brigade . |