Example sentences of "i [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 3 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 4 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 5 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 6 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 7 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 9 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 10 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 11 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 12 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 13 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 14 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 15 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 16 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 17 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 18 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 19 | She said , ‘ I 've been here for three weeks , I have n't seen one movie star until now , ’ and she came over and got my autograph . |
| 20 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 21 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 22 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 23 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 24 | ‘ I 've been here for six months . ’ |
| 25 | Er , I 've been now for six and a half years , I think , at the last count , er , I know I 've served just over half my sentence . |
| 26 | I 've been inside for over a decade , the fact that I could be out soon cares me . |
| 27 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 28 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 29 | I have been here for more than two years I have lectured them . |
| 30 | Another decade was to pass before it really sank in , and he could write , ‘ What an ass I have been both for not knowing and for thinking I knew . |