Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 2 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 3 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 4 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 5 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 6 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 7 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 8 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 9 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 10 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 11 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 12 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 13 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 14 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 15 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 16 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 17 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 18 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 19 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 20 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 21 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 22 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 23 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 25 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 27 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 28 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 29 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 30 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |