Example sentences of "[verb] be [pron] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 2 | Former County Donegal coach No. 28 leaves the caravan site that has been its home for 30 years to return to the railway . |
| 3 | ‘ It has been her home for well over thirty years and she needs some stability after losing Father . |
| 4 | It 's the second time this month , Mrs Jones has been robbed ; this tied cottage has been her home for 72 years . |
| 5 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 6 | This has been my home for more than twenty years . |
| 7 | " The furniture well , it has been my hobby for many years . |
| 8 | Glancing at the ‘ who duz wot ’ bit has been my wont for many an aeon , I spotted an absence . |
| 9 | He had a lovely hand , and wrote about him that ‘ this man has been my coachman for a number of years and I have no hesitation in highly recommending him … ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ Becoming a Methodist minister has been my ambition for many years . |
| 11 | It has been our practise for some time now to give out names addresses and telephone numbers of local teachers to any one making enquiries at promotional events . |
| 12 | It has been our policy for the past 12 years to limit investigation of such patients to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , with endoscopic small bowel biopsy , and barium enema . |
| 13 | Peter Bergg , Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington , said : ‘ Regional government has been our policy for some years now , I 'm flabbergasted by how many of our policies the Labour Party are taking on board at the moment to try and win the middle ground . |
| 14 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 15 | My man in Alexandria , Fischer , thinks Sau-leyan was n't responsible for his brother 's death , but there 's good reason to believe that Hung Mien-lo has been his man for some time now . ’ |
| 16 | What I want is your pin-cushion for a dildo . ’ |
| 17 | Each was a romantic saga in miniature and each had the same basic plot : in a variety of vaguely 1930s settings , James played a wealthy philanderer who appeared to have a fetish about tea since the common feature of the married women he pursued was their taste for Trumper 's Tea Bags . |
| 18 | Asked if he 'd been her boyfriend for long . |
| 19 | All she could see was Andrew , and all she could feel was her longing for him . |
| 20 | A further indication of the skill and care with which the arrangements were made was our accommodation for the night . |
| 21 | It may or may not have been his home for any length of time , but it is certainly the only survivor of that contemporary period of timbered houses with thatched roofs which frequently caught fire and were eventually forbidden . |
| 22 | The yardstick by which each proposal is judged is its potential for success within C&P ; , or it may be passed on elsewhere in the group . |
| 23 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 24 | She could n't think now that this had been her home for so long . |
| 25 | O'Shea , of Shepherd 's Bush , west London , who had been her boyfriend for several months , admitted to police he strangled her with electrical flex . |
| 26 | Hugh Lorimer had been her solicitor for years ; he was also a family friend . |
| 27 | Some of the Dutch civilian internees walked out of the camps which had been their prisons for three-and-a-half years , despite instructions to stay inside . |
| 28 | ‘ It had been our ambition for some time to see our dominance in the east of Scotland established without doubt by virtue of a presence in Edinburgh , ’ says Heggie . |
| 29 | Sparks had been my life for only 16 years , but long before I joined I had admired its style , history and clientele — over a century of selling fine Chinese art , for the past 60 years from that great drawing-room of a shop in Mount Street . |
| 30 | I am sure that if I had been his secretary for a fortnight I should have wanted to poison him , not marry him … yes , I should have run round to the chemist 's for threepennyworth of poison after a very short time . |