Example sentences of "[be] in [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're in Italy for ten days . |
| 2 | If you 're in London for Valentine 's and you want to make sure your hair is looking good and feeling fab for that hot date then go along to the Schumi salon in Belgravia . |
| 3 | They 're in Oxford for a preview of Scrooge the musical … what 's been billed at the hottest show outside of London . |
| 4 | If we 're in Vietnam for another ten years and your son is killed by those babies , you 'll cry at me , ‘ Why did n't you kill those babies that day ? ' ’ |
| 5 | They 're in Blackpool for the Labour Party Conference , determined to put their case onto the agenda . |
| 6 | We 're in Egypt for a whole week , you know . " |
| 7 | ‘ From what he says , he has been in Amsterdam for the last six weeks , and rarely went far from the airport . |
| 8 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |
| 9 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 10 | Nor do they always distinguish Turks who have been in Germany for years from recent ‘ economic migrants ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ All these customers were gained from , or won in competition with , Castrol , who have been in Czechoslovakia for 30 years , ’ says Pomfret with delight . |
| 12 | Albert Sandison had been in Naples for three weeks and he was beginning to forget why he had come . |
| 13 | He had been in Britain for over twenty years and never had any problem or contact with the police except for one occasion when he was with Mum on a shopping expedition and police officers approached him and said , ‘ You fit the description of a guy that has just mugged a woman down the road . ’ |
| 14 | He plays Jeremy Conway , a spy who 's been in Britain for years achieving a powerful position with a large London bank . |
| 15 | As far as Comfort knew , they had returned to the States for the duration , although in fact they had been in London for part of the time , working for the Free French , and back in France for most of the rest . |
| 16 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 17 | Ash had been in London for a programming interview with some big insurance company and had offered me a lift back home , or to Gallanach anyway , as I 'd exiled myself from Lochgair . |
| 18 | You have n't been in London for months , so it must be someone from round here . |
| 19 | And she had been in London for less than a month . |
| 20 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 21 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 22 | The French and English kings sometimes had to help those who had served them to regain their freedom : in 1444 Sir John Handford , who had been in France for more than twenty years , received 15,000 livres from Henry VI as a contribution towards the purchase of his freedom ; while Jean de Rodemack got a substantial sum towards the payment of his ransom from René d'Anjou , and Georges de la Trémoîlle received a seigneurie in Poitou from Charles VII in lieu of ransom promised but not paid . |
| 23 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 24 | She has n't been in Italy for a long time . |
| 25 | We returned to Makassar from the Toraja highlands with dangerously diminished funds , realizing that we had been in Celebes for two months and that the chances of finding a prahu which could carry us the nearly two thousand miles to the Aru Islands were remote . |
| 26 | The visiting players have been in England for some days , and all four are becoming understandable twitchy as the time to make the first moves approaches . |
| 27 | ‘ You can win money but you can not eat , ’ said a member of the Ukrainian-Russian squad who have been in England for the past fortnight . |
| 28 | Of the 8 experienced geologists in post after the war only M. Macgregor , Richey and Wilson were on the Scottish staff in 1931 and the last named had been in England for 5 of the intervening years . |
| 29 | Till then I had felt I was beginning to get his measure ; first of all , his English , though excellent , was somehow not contemporary , more that of someone who had n't been in England for many years ; and then his whole appearance was foreign . |
| 30 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |