Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 3 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 4 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 5 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 7 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 8 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 9 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 10 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 11 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 12 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 13 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 14 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |