Example sentences of "you [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 2 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 3 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 4 | ‘ So you 've been here for two years , ’ teased Tony as she looked for her key and opened the door , ‘ and still no boyfriend ? ’ |
| 5 | and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and |
| 6 | Mr Chatfield , you 've been here for , well , as you say , thirty five years — what was it like in the old days before the university was put here ? |
| 7 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 8 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 9 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 10 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 11 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 12 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 13 | You 've been there for over a month . ’ |
| 14 | which is when you 've been there for a for genuinely over an hour and a half . |
| 15 | " You 've been out for hours . " |
| 16 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 17 | how long you 've been off for , to unemployment |
| 18 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 19 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 20 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 21 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 22 | You can establish a much deeper contact with a partner through much of this year and , if you have been passion-less for some time , be prepared for things to change considerably . |