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 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 5 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 6 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 7 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 8 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 9 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 12 | Well , I 've been away for three , well th the winters are n't as hard now as they used to be . |
| 13 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 16 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 17 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 19 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 21 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 22 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 23 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 24 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 26 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Well , Jim , I 've been here for three years , and no real food from that day to this . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |