Example sentences of "been [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time .
2 I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while .
3 And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments
4 If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present .
5 We 've been away for a long time .
6 ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’
7 ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy .
8 I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to .
9 She 's been away for the last week or so
10 No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time .
11 The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time .
12 It was very good very very good for women that have been home for a long time and want to get their confidence back .
13 Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched .
14 I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
15 Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time .
16 Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India .
17 The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time .
18 I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while
19 Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains .
20 ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’
21 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
22 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
23 The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time .
24 Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic .
25 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
26 The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems .
27 Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers .
28 Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year .
29 Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ?
30 And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole .
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