Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 2 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 3 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 4 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 5 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |