Example sentences of "have [be] [prep] [det] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No-one has been on this path for two days . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 3 | They must have been at that game for ages — and no anaesthetics , either . |
| 4 | Jamie and the girl were inches away from me , holding me by an arm each , being bumped into frequently , but my drunkenness had now got to such a state — as the last two quickly consumed pints and an accompanying whisky caught up with my racing bloodstream — that I might as well have been on another planet for all the hope I had of making them understand what I wanted . |
| 5 | The end result might only be a slight scratch , but the potential might have been in that situation for something a lot worse . |
| 6 | ‘ It seems the continental disease may have been in this country for some time , ’ Dr Tapper says , ‘ but we do n't believe hare populations are in serious danger . ’ |
| 7 | For instance , the Borough Surveyor wrote to ask for repairs to be made to the wall between the School and Greek Street : he was politely but firmly informed that the wall was not dangerous , " having been in that condition for twenty years " ! |
| 8 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 9 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 10 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 11 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 12 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 13 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 14 | I 've been on this circuit for six months now , but I 've been driving cabs for twenty-four years . |
| 15 | I 've been into this look for quite a while now , I know the rules . |
| 16 | Celmira : I 've been in this country for fifteen years . |
| 17 | We 've been in this house for about twelve years |
| 18 | Kerly added : ‘ I 've been in this game for 16 years . |
| 19 | A. There are , but we 've been in this business for nearly 200 years and pride ourselves in the fact that we have probably dealt with every known problem that has ever arisen . |
| 20 | that there is that fear , that is because that is the second World War this is why the erm the er late thirties , early forties was never gon na succeed , because they had two completely different archaeologist , plus now in their purest form their not that but in the they were , they were never going to work , I mean that is the fact that their communists , the sole reason they 've been against each other for a hundred and fifty years there is no other reason |
| 21 | I 've been around this house for |
| 22 | there 's been a lot of people that have been on that level for a long while . |
| 23 | Is she , where , is she actually proposing that these should be located ? in , in the countryside , in , in towns ? because they 're sens sensitivities o on that particular on the siting of that er particular activity and er we 're seen it elsewhere , er , those of us who have been on this committee for some time will know the concern that there are about the location of waste recycling facilities and er as I say I would hate that we would have a list of sites across the county which would just start paying us money and quite frankly should never be started . |
| 24 | Jesus Christ , you have been in that pit for the past three hours . |
| 25 | I do not think that the hon. Member for Edinburgh , Central , his hon. Friends or the majority of my hon. Friends would say that the Government were wrong , rather than giving no status to people who have been in this country for a number of years , to have given them exceptional leave to remain . |
| 26 | Now I have been in this business for a long time , and I was at that conference , and I have to say that I had forgotten the resolution until I was reading things again in preparing for this talk . |
| 27 | The Garlands have been in this game for eighty years — accumulating , not spending . |
| 28 | The structure was there and I think anybody who 's been in this business for any number of years , some of us have been in it longer than others er know that you actually need a structure er of that , of that little . |