Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly ! |
| 2 | So he 's been for two years . |
| 3 | So it has been for centuries , yet the multi-petalled bloom of modern times , epitomized by the modern Hybrid Tea rose ( or , as it is abbreviated , H.T. ) and probably most people 's mental image of all that a rose is and should be , is a product of modern hybridizing and cross-breeding that did not exist even as recently as medieval times . |
| 4 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 5 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 6 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 7 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 8 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 9 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |