Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 4 | It may seem as if it has been with us forever , but the ubiquitous American Express chargecard has , in fact , only been around for 35 years . |
| 5 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 6 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 7 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 8 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 9 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 12 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 13 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 14 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 15 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 16 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 17 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 18 | not been on for ages . |
| 19 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 20 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 21 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 22 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 23 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 24 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 25 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 26 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 27 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 28 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 29 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 30 | She seems to have always been there for me to run to . |