Example sentences of "and [verb] [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's married a Welsh girl , has two Welsh kids and has been here for five years . |
| 2 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 3 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 4 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 5 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 6 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 7 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 8 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |
| 9 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 10 | Armies are the main conventional weapon and have been around for over five millennia in various forms . |
| 11 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 12 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 13 | The roles of chairman and chief executive are segregated and have been so for nine years . |