Example sentences of "[pers pn] has be [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 2 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 3 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 4 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 5 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 6 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 7 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 8 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |