Example sentences of "have [been] [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow .
2 The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time .
3 She has been there for the past 10 years .
4 I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time .
11 He told me he had been there for a long time dying .
12 Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour .
13 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 .
14 God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’
15 We 've been away for a long time .
16 ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’
17 I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to .
18 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 .
19 ‘ We 've been apart for a long time .
20 I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time !
21 And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments
22 er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out .
23 They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady .
24 The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time .
25 It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back .
26 Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do .
27 If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present .
28 ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen .
29 " Signs of a coming plateau have been there for a long time and are now getting better and better " , according to independent consultant Richard Kimberlin .
30 The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks .
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