Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 2 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 3 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 4 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 5 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 6 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 7 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 8 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 9 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 10 | She knew she had been dismissed from Algox because she had not been up for grabs . |
| 11 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 12 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 13 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 14 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 15 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 16 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 17 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 18 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 19 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 20 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 21 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 22 | And that misuse of the aerosol sprays is probably responsible for about three thousand five hundred deaths , but I think you 've got to put that into perspective , first of all against the six thousand people who are killed on the roads every year in Britain , and you 've also got to set it against our estimate that there are more than a quarter of a million people alive today who would have died in childhood if it had n't been specifically for the advantage of being able to take medicines , anti-biotics generally in their childhood to keep them alive . |
| 23 | We had n't been out for ages and there was a good film on . ’ |
| 24 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 25 | They had n't been out for any days since Adam had been at home . |
| 26 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 27 | I had n't been there for more than a minute when the skipper bellowed : ‘ This is melanoma country , mate . |
| 28 | The couple next door said she had n't been there for several days . |
| 29 | It is n't as if the chances had n't been there for Leeds to win away last term : Oldham 2–0 up with 5 minutes to go , Sheff . |
| 30 | Well I had n't been there for ages ! |