Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 2 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 3 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 4 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 5 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 6 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 7 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 8 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
| 9 | Version 1 of Rescalc has been around for some years and is today regarded as rather palaeolithic . |
| 10 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 11 | ‘ Or maybe she just learned from a more rational neighbour that the real Delia has been abroad for six months . |
| 12 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 13 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 14 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 15 | On the one hand , ethnic minorities currently settled in Britain have been here for a relatively short period of time , and it seems that circumstances of migration and initial settlement are conditions under which support between siblings assumes greater significance than it might otherwise do — a point illustrated by the patterns of chain migration and of joint households which I discussed earlier in this chapter . |
| 16 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 17 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 18 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 19 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 20 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 21 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 22 | Schmeichel has been out for two matches with a poisoned hand . |
| 23 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |