Example sentences of "[verb] been [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 3 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 4 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 5 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 6 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 7 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 8 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 9 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 10 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 11 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 12 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 13 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 14 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 15 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 16 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 17 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 18 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 19 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 20 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 21 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 22 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 23 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 24 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 25 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 26 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 27 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 28 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 29 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 30 | You know a lot of the erm shops that have been here for many years |