Example sentences of "have [be] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The fishery has been here for over 400 years , so we want to make sure we maintain it for future generations , ’ said Mr Horne . |
| 2 | Your fax has been here for about a week now , I 'll bring it down for you . |
| 3 | ‘ This outfit has been together for almost three years , everyone knows each other , we all get on and there 's no prima donnas etime . ’ |
| 4 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 5 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 6 | ‘ When a person has been underground for so many years it 's a new lease of life ’ ; ‘ it 's just a grand feeling . ’ |
| 7 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 8 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 9 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 10 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 11 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 12 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 13 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 14 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 15 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 16 | On 30 November 1766 , having been away for over three years , the Mozarts returned to Salzburg . |
| 17 | Standing on the draining board was an old , chipped saucer containing a slab of soap which was yellow as cheese and rock hard , its surface covered in deep cracks and giving the appearance of having been there for ever . |
| 18 | Gabrielle was granted a decree nisi in a five-minute hearing at the Divorce Court in London , on the grounds that the couple had been apart for more than two years . |
| 19 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 20 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 21 | High living standards had encouraged migration to these republics from other parts of the USSR , and this became one of the issues most central to the development of a powerful and widely supported nationalist movement in the late 1980s , particularly since the Baltic nations were relatively few in number and tended to have low birth and high divorce rates ( in Latvia , where golden and silver wedding anniversaries had formerly been celebrated , there were ceremonies in the 1980s for couples that had been together for just a few years ) . |
| 22 | He was wearing the leather shoes that had been only for best until they grew too small for his feet and now had to be worn for school . |
| 23 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 24 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 25 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 26 | And sad things like children falling into fires and because in the mud huts you have the fire in the centre of the hut and it 's quite easy for the children to fall in and there was one little boy there who had been there for over a year and they kept trying to erm heal up all his skin wounds . |
| 27 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 28 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 29 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 30 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |