Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 2 | She then moved to Bristol City Council where she has been for some months . |
| 3 | From the mid-'50s , where we 've been for quite some time , we 're suddenly into the '60s , 1961 in fact , and a finger-picked instrumental written by Chet Atkins , entitled Trambone . |
| 4 | I think members will probably by now , be aware that a decision has been taken to leave the offices in Bedford Square where we have been for so many years . |
| 5 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 6 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 7 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 8 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 9 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 10 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 11 | ‘ The improvement and the form suggests it 's the best Welsh pack since the Triple Crown in 1988 , so yes I 'm more optimistic than I 've been for some time ’ , said the 43-year-old ‘ Panther ’ , who is now a schoolmaster in Swansea . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm happier than I 've been for years , ’ she said quietly . |
| 14 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 15 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 16 | I am much slimmer and a better shape than I have been for some time ( or for months , years , etc. ) and I am going to get even slimmer and achieve an even better figure — a figure I never thought I could have . |
| 17 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 18 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 19 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 20 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 21 | As Elisabeth , Rosalind Plowright sounded more secure than she has been for some time on British stages and sang her last aria with true Verdian pathos and passion . |
| 22 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 23 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 24 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 25 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 26 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 27 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 28 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 29 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Couples is a naturally high flighter of the ball and that , together with his length , is an advantage at Augusta , particularly since everyone seems to agree that the greens are firmer than they have been for years . |