Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 2 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 3 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 4 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 5 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 6 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 7 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 8 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 9 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 10 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 11 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 14 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 15 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 16 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 17 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 18 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 19 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 20 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 22 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 23 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 24 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 25 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 26 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 27 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 28 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 29 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 30 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |