Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [been] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 4 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 5 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 6 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 7 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 8 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 9 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 11 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 12 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 13 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 14 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 15 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 18 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 19 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 20 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 21 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 22 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 23 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 24 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 25 | We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’ |
| 26 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 27 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 28 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 29 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 30 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |