Example sentences of "been [adv prt] for [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them .
2 So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it !
3 Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words .
4 Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work .
5 They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home .
6 Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived .
7 But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work .
8 A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment .
9 Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic .
10 Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ .
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