Example sentences of "they [verb] been [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 2 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 3 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 4 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 5 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 6 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |