Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [noun] for " in BNC.
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1 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
2 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
3 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
5 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
6 | The posts stuck into the rock to your right as you ascend are markers for winter to stop people going off the edge ; they also double as abseil posts for a quick escape route . |
7 | All you pay is £1.99 for membership . |
8 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
9 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
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 | The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election . |
13 | The Manager of the year awards are open to Domino 's staff who have been managers for more than nine months . |
14 | But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ? |
15 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
16 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
19 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
20 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
21 | We 've been friends for years . |
22 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
23 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
24 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
25 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
26 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
27 | What we need are outlets for emotion . |
28 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
29 | Indeed , there has been widespread belief that management is not really feasible despite the fact that , in terms of producing a naturally-regenerating stand of timber trees without any sign of soil deterioration , there has been success for over a century , beginning with teak in southern Asia . |
30 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |