Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 2 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 3 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 4 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 5 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 6 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 7 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 8 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 9 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 10 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 11 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 12 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 13 | He 's been out for some time . |
| 14 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 15 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 16 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 17 | Few ‘ moderate missions ’ are definite either , despite proposals that have been around for many years . |
| 18 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 19 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 20 | Fax machines have been around for many years and the obvious benefit of being able to transmit documents and graphics by telephone is by no means newly perceived . |
| 21 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 22 | The favourite trick , and this has been around for several years now , is to simply double the horizontal scanning frequency so that a 300 by 300 printer becomes a 300 by 600 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | You 've just said you have n't been around for several weeks . |
| 25 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 26 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 27 | Other English-speaking riders have been around for some years . |
| 28 | Despite the fact that our genus has been around for some four million years , it is only in the past century or so that we have discovered the knack of using radio signals . |
| 29 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 30 | Mammal-like animals have been around for some 200 million years but did n't become particularly numerous until about 70 million years ago , around the time the dinosaurs became extinct . |