Example sentences of "[verb] been [noun pl] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 2 | Such wide spaces may have been places for furniture — certainly , a number of different positions from which to view a pavement is desirable . |
| 3 | Had Mountbatten been lambasting the Arabs , there might well have been grounds for constraint . |
| 4 | Nolan regularly rides the horse , Chickweed , that Angela Brickell had care of , and there would have been opportunities for sex at race meetings , like in a horse-box , if he wanted to take the risk . |
| 5 | ‘ There would have been stalls for coffee , gingerbread and souvenirs , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Having been exporters for decades , Japan 's car makers are at last becoming real multinationals , with factories all over the world . |
| 7 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 8 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 9 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 10 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 11 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |
| 12 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Heads of department from the Soviet trade union centre , the AUCCTU , are expected to visit Congress House in the New Year on a fact-finding mission , and there have been requests for training links to be built between the TUC and the Hungarian trade union body , SZOT , which has been attempting to restructure itself over the last two years . |
| 16 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 17 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 18 | On a sale of a private company , or if there have been reorganisations for taxation purposes , it is common for the seller to require the contract to be conditional on a clearance under s.703 ( cancellation of tax advantage ) and any other applicable tax provisions . |
| 19 | There have been calls for legislation to give suppliers an automatic right to claim interest on overdue payments and for debt collecting procedures in the courts to be simplified . |
| 20 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 21 | But the main items of most concern have been grants for surface cultivation ( ploughing and rotovation ) , drainage and fertilisers , whether paid under Development Plans or as one-off capital aids ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 22 | There have been stations for service establishments , such as RAF Cranwell and Cosford Aerodrome . |
| 23 | There have been stations for factories . |
| 24 | There have been stations for hospitals ( Cheddleton Asylum , Whittingham Hospital ) and stations for schools ( Wellington College , Christ 's Hospital ) . |
| 25 | There have been gains for nature conservation in that the storms have prompted a fundamental questioning of the received view . |