Example sentences of "[vb base] been here for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 2 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 4 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 6 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 7 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 8 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 9 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 10 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 11 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 12 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 13 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 16 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 17 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 18 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |
| 19 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 20 | Mr Chatfield , you 've been here for , well , as you say , thirty five years — what was it like in the old days before the university was put here ? |
| 21 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 22 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 23 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 24 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |
| 25 | ‘ We have been here for five years . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 28 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 29 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 30 | Some of the trees in this ancient woodland have been here for more than 300 years . |