Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] 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 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 23 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 25 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 26 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 27 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 28 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 29 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 30 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |