Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | if it 's doing so well , oh and you would n't have been on that long under a Labour Government , of course , it would 've been jobs for the boys , they 'd 've slipped you in I 'm sure . |
| 2 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 3 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 4 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 5 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 7 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 8 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 9 | There may have been reasons for this lack of positive discrimination towards the older conurbations . |
| 10 | The point was long in doubt , and there may have been reasons for thinking that it might not be appropriate to extend the obligation to measures adopted before a directive existed . |
| 11 | Beguiled by state-of-the-art techniques ( of the kind deployed for ‘ Cités-Cinés ’ , which captured the public imagination five years ago ) , architects and stage designers , experts from the worlds of cinema and advertising , as well as art historians , will create a series of typical settings , which were or could have been subjects for Impressionist paintings . |
| 12 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 13 | The main reason , main thing is presuming that there must have been refreshments for all these people , probably might have been just a buffet or cup of coffee , or I expect there was probably a lunch laid on , I want to know who footed the bill for the lunch ? |
| 14 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 15 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 16 | There may also have been opportunities for paid work experience . |
| 17 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world . |
| 19 | However , the prison sentences on the 61 , originally imposed for " hooliganism " , offending good manners and upsetting public order , had merely been annulled in February 1990 ; they were now formally reclassified as having been convictions for the political offence of " propaganda against the socialist system " . |
| 20 | The princes had not been mentioned and she assumed it to have been instructions for some special task commissioned privately by the new constable . |
| 21 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 22 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 23 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 24 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 25 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 26 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 27 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
| 28 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 29 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 30 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |