Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 2 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 3 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 4 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 5 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 6 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 7 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 8 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 9 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 10 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 11 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 12 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 13 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 14 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 15 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 16 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 17 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 18 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 19 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 20 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |
| 21 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 23 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 24 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 25 | Now Michael should of been here for this one , |
| 26 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 27 | 50 officers are involved in the hunt for the man 's attackers ; scenes of crime and forensic experts have been here for most of the day . |
| 28 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 29 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 30 | have n't been there for many years |