Example sentences of "[vb past] been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 2 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 3 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 6 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 7 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 8 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 9 | There had been publicity for occasional outbursts of violence and bad language or for shocking displays of sexuality , but there had never really been a significant breakthrough in terms of outspoken social statement . |
| 10 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 13 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
| 17 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | , 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 . |
| 21 | The Commissioners enquired how and why would the pension be paid , and the Governors explained that Hamilton was now 67 , had been Headmaster for 27 years , and although not then in bad health had two or three years previously had a serious illness , and was not considered equal to the work . |
| 22 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 23 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 24 | He had been Chairman for less then two years in succession to Dr. Greenwood , when he collapsed and died during a Welsh Regional Rally . |
| 25 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 26 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
| 27 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 28 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 29 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 30 | The death is reported of A. Shanks at Port Askaig where he had been agent for the steamer " Islay " for over 20 years . |