Example sentences of "he [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 2 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 3 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 4 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 5 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 6 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 7 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 8 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 9 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 10 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 11 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 12 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 13 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 16 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 17 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 18 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 21 | I 'm sure that Rex Bellamy wo n't mind me saying that in tennis terms at least , he 's been around for quite a while . |
| 22 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |
| 23 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 24 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
| 25 | He 's been there for weeks and I could have done the whole thing in a couple of days . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 27 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 28 | It is as though he 's been inside for months . |
| 29 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |
| 30 | He 's been out for nearly a week . |