Example sentences of "[vb past] been [noun] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 2 | The weather had been kind for Boz 's wedding but it was less so for Tom and Dolly . |
| 3 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 4 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 5 | , Peter ( 1806–1883 ) , industrial chemist and alum manufacturer , was born 19 February 1806 in Brechin , Forfarshire , Scotland , the son of a hand-loom weaver of Brechin , and his wife , whose family had been farmers for generations . |
| 6 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 7 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |
| 8 | His ancestors had been MPs for Liverpool on and off since 1307 , and his father served in the Parliament of 1625 , besides being sheriff of Lancashire in 1620 . |
| 9 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |