Example sentences of "they [verb] been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 2 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 3 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 4 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 5 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 6 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 7 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 8 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 9 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 10 | They have been vacant for three months . |
| 11 | They have been married for two years . ’ |
| 12 | They have been married for six years and despite years of tests and trying , have no children . |
| 13 | They have been married for five years , confounding sceptics who said it would n't last because of the age difference . |
| 14 | Each in his time has painted over the inheritance of his predecessor , but the Oak Leaf camps have remained because they have been necessary for each new Czar 's survival . |