Example sentences of "she [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been there for two years . |
| 2 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 3 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 4 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 5 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 6 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 7 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |