Example sentences of "who [verb] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 4 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 5 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 6 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 7 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 8 | Irvine , California-based Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 9 | Pick Systems in its umpteenth resurgence has rehired two of its old lieutenants : Richard Lauer , who 's been off for six years at Sequoia Computer Systems Inc , returns as vice president , sales and Tim Holland , credited with many of Pick 's technical developments , returns from stints at Sequoia and Concurrent Computer Corp to be senior vice president , technology . |
| 10 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |