Example sentences of "[vb base] [be] [adv] for [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 2 | We 've been here for six months . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 4 | Actually , we 've been here for 5 days already , but things have been a bit hectic . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've been here for thousands of years ! |
| 6 | Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years . |
| 7 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 8 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 9 | It 's a shame for shopkeepers … we 've been here for three years and have always done an excellent job for them . |
| 10 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 11 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 12 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 13 | But they 've been there for twenty years on that spot . |
| 14 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |
| 15 | They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school . |
| 16 | We 've been together for 23 years . |
| 17 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 18 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 19 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 20 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 21 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 22 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 23 | But you do n't do anybody until they 've be here for six months . |
| 24 | Leather trousers have been around for two or three years now , but PVC 's a good alternative and it 's cheaper ’ — Catriona Smith |
| 25 | ‘ My family have been around for seventeen generations , do n't you know , so we feel we have n't an awful lot to prove . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been here for five years . |
| 27 | Some of the staff have been here for twenty years . |
| 28 | The roles of chairman and chief executive are segregated and have been so for nine years . |
| 29 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 30 | Since April , the United Mine Workers of America have been on strike here against the Pittston Company : 1,700 miners have been out for seven months and , despite intimidation , no one has gone back to work . |