Example sentences of "[vb -s] been here for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The same family has closed it 's delicatessen which has now become an art shop and the butcher whose family has been here for 176 years , closes this weekend . |
2 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
3 | Manager Sue Surrey is seen here being presented with the southern regional quarterly audit prize by Eugene Kertzman and CCG client Ewart Wooldridge , and she has no doubt about the reason : ‘ CCG has been here for 12 years , myself for the last seven , and you can put our success down to working together as a team . |
4 | Today people spend their money more evenly and the standard of hospitality has improved This unit has been here for ten years and can take 350 people , it 's well established . |
5 | Pulling off the sticky brambles that clung to their jeans , Carrie 's children said , ‘ No one 's been here for hundreds of years … ’ |
6 | ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir . |