Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 2 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
| 3 | " I have n't been for some time . |
| 4 | Yes dear I went to erm , er the er holiday camp in October to erm , er with the Red Cross and I went with the , Charlie took me and I went in a car with a friend of mine we went to the Red Cross holiday in Patefield , but it poured of rain every day every day it poured of rain did n't October it was terrible , ever so cold , but we were well looked after you know and I enjoyed it and we had the wheelchairs to go around in on for the dancing , it was really great I thoroughly enjoyed it , I have n't been for two years I had n't , but I went like in October , cos you 're only allowed really every two years to go , that 's all you 're allowed really , but I thoroughly enjoyed it you know , it was nice |
| 5 | I used to be , but I have n't been for a long while I used to we ca n't say that I was there last year but |
| 6 | I was just gon na say , some sometimes , I have n't been for a bit mind you , oh , well the last time I went , sometimes I go to Wales to Blaenau Ffestiniog or to congregation |
| 7 | Cos I have n't been for two years since I 've been to that one ! |
| 8 | You 're lucky , I have n't been for three days . |
| 9 | I have n't been for three years . |
| 10 | cos I have n't been for about a month , three weeks . |
| 11 | She has n't been for a long time . |
| 12 | It was her idea to come here each summer , but she has n't been for three years now . |
| 13 | She said she had n't been for a while and erm then she said they did n't really know , they wondered how she was gon na get on in the water . |
| 14 | She opened her eyes and was aware of being in her mother 's bed , where she had not been for over ten years . |
| 15 | But she brought them because it salved her conscience to bring something , and she had not been for two weeks now . |
| 16 | Kathy made two cups of tea and said firmly , ‘ You are n't yourself , Clare , and you have n't been for months . ’ |
| 17 | She said no she said we have n't been for ages . |
| 18 | But we have n't been for months . |
| 19 | That 'll be nice cos we have n't been for a bit have we ? |
| 20 | what your look , same with your letter forage , I think mostly we were taught letter formation , which we have n't been for a few years now |
| 21 | The way they 'd always been for his people : the fishers , the hunters . |
| 22 | Although a rich resource for trivialisation by the media , the women 's movement in the 1970s succeeded in making issues to do with women 's rights visible in ways they had not been for over sixty years . |
| 23 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 24 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 25 | they have n't been for a long time them two so they 're cast off , well they must of been they 've had to join |
| 26 | I do n't like the cold snaps but they have n't been for long have they ? |
| 27 | They have not been for some time except to people who still remember The Beatles and The Animals . |
| 28 | Yes , but he has n't been for ages has he ? |
| 29 | It has n't been for three years . " |
| 30 | Primarily a religious holiday , it has also been for hundreds of years a secular holiday , often with a travelling showmen 's fair visiting the village at the time . |