Example sentences of "[vb base] been [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.

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1 Sergeant Flavell sounds a little odd when I talk to him and tell him I 've been to Jersey for the day but I 'm on my way back to Edinburgh .
2 Oh , he said , we 've been to Yorkshire for our honeymoon .
3 But even for him there 's a thrill playing with bands who 've been on top for quarter of a century
4 The General Secretary mentions some of them in his Report , and I do not apologize for mentioning it again , they 're fighting back at Timex , they 're fighting back at Burnsall , in my own region at Crawley we 've twenty members who 've been on strike for the last sixteen and a half weeks .
5 You 've been at school for years and what have you achieved ?
6 ‘ You 've been with Aurora for several years as her Girl Friday , and now you work at the club as her assistant . ’
7 ‘ You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and you 're still just his secretary . ’
8 You 've been with Julius for ten years now , and if a man has n't wanted something in ten years , then he 's never going to want it .
9 Er and I mean er a lot of that 's perhaps the release of stress , so that you know you 've been under pressure for a long time and then you , you take that away , and it may actually be detrimental to but er it does n't , obviously the figures are a little bit odd .
10 Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group !
11 Er I felt , I 've been after Danny for nearly twelve months to come see and not been able to get him on the night I want him the only night he was able , was available was I think it was one night when we had something else on I ca n't remember what it was .
12 Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years .
13 ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says .
14 But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like !
15 They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry .
16 You 've been in bed for eight o'clock last night it 's now nine what 's that , thirteen odd hours ?
17 We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’
18 he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather
19 Then there was Octavia Hill ( ‘ I 've been in conservation for about two years ’ ) , Dr Barnardo , Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens .
20 I 've been in business for 43 years .
21 ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’
22 You 've been in office for four months .
23 You 'll be surprised to learn that I am still in Nanking : I 've been in hospital for 6 days with gastro-enteritis , but I 'm glad to say now I 'm fine , and am due to travel to Shanghai tomorrow .
24 is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them .
25 I 've been in prison for assault , robbery , shoplifting and burglary .
26 ‘ I 've been in Australia for the entire time .
27 And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours .
28 Hugh and Joyce Gardiner have been with Timex for a total of 44 years and never believed that their fight could have reached such a pitch .
29 All the drawings were published in a magisterial catalogue by Peter Fuhring in 1987 and have been with Hazlitt for the last eighteen months .
30 They have been on exercise for a week , learning and practising the techniques of counterrevolutionary warfare in a rural setting .
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